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Nutjob vs Whackjob - What's the difference?

nutjob | whackjob | Synonyms |

Whackjob is a synonym of nutjob.



As nouns the difference between nutjob and whackjob

is that nutjob is an alternative spelling of nut job while whackjob is a crazy, possibly dangerous, person.

nutjob

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • whackjob

    English

    Alternative forms

    *wackjob *whack job

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (colloquial, pejorative) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
  • *1992: Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch
  • *:"He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob ' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does."
  • *2003: Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War
  • *:One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.
  • *2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie
  • *:Ronald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs .

    • Synonyms

    *(crazy, possibly dangerous person ): basket case, loony, nutjob, nutter, screwball, wacko, wingnut