Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal)An eccentric, crazy or foolish person.

    Time will tell whether he is a crackpot or a genius for promoting that sort of idea.

    Spinner

    безумецbezumec

    a whimsically eccentric person

  2. (informal)Someone addicted to crack cocaine (i.e. a drug addict).

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom is a crackpot.

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  2. I'm not a crackpot.

    ruЯ не псих.

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  3. Tom called you a crackpot.

    ruТом назвал тебя чокнутым.

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  4. Tom said you were a crackpot.

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  5. Don't listen to that crackpot, he's always talking nonsense.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
crazy person:
Deutsch
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crazy person:

Origin

Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.

Mostly likely a back-etymology of pot, to form crack + pot. Originally, from crack + pate.

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