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wingnut

Noun

Meaning

A deciduous tree of the genus Pterocarya native to Asia.

Alternative form of wing nut

(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).

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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid conspiracy theorists. They're the people who always try to divide rather than unite us. John Avlon

In 2013, wingnut congressman Steve Stockman to attend President Obama's State of the Union address; Obama was unfazed by the aging rocker, who sat there like a bored delinquent at detention. Source: Internet

I agree that there is some utility in a flamboyant wingnut, if only to prove that there is a price to pay for being that nutty. Source: Internet

With all due respect to Keli Goff who wrote an excellent article for about racism and our right wingnut friends, I don't want folks to ever get the impression that it (racism) is only limited to the right side of the ideological spectrum. Source: Internet

This is a rule: when a Republican president is at his most hapless and incompetent and indefensible, that's when the wingnut prose about him is most ludicrously adulatory. Source: Internet

Enough sermonizing about this young wingnut. Source: Internet

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