Noun

(en noun)

A nut having wing-like projections so that it can be turned easily by hand.

A deciduous tree of the genus native to Asia.

(slang, derogatory) Someone with crazy or extreme political views (especially extreme conservative views).

(slang, derogatory, North American itinerant and street populations) A mentally ill homeless person.

(slang, derogatory) Someone perceived as odd, eccentric, and/or extreme.

(slang, rural US) A member of the air force (in a town that hosts a USAF installation).

Noun

(en noun)

(label) A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).

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, year = 2005 , title = Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , first = Michele , last = Malkin , authorlink = Michele Malkin , location = Washington, DC , publisher = Regnery , isbn = 9781596981874 , page = 108 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yBVQBhSn0AEC&pg=PA108&dq=moonbat , passage = So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans? }}

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, date = 2006-05-11 , title = Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House , first = Eric , last = Boehlert , authorlink = Eric Boehlert , location = New York , publisher = Free Press , isbn = 9780743299169 , page = 216 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=H9DvHdbvW7UC&pg=PA216&dq=moonbat , passage = As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat ,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.” }}

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, date = 2009-10-13 , title = Downforce , first = Steve , last = Eubanks , location = New York , publisher = Harper , isbn = 9780061743467 , page = 255 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=opDNceTHfYsC&pg=PA255&dq=moonbats , passage = Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal. }}

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