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. — odexed

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  3. Tom called you a crackpot.

    ruТом назвал тебя чокнутым. — scriptin

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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
By meaning 1
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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Forms

plural: crackpots
Singularcrackpot
Pluralcrackpots

regular

Synonyms

55 synonyms
crazyA2eccentricC1freakB2oddityC1crackB2nutB2unconventionalC1addictB2fiendC1slaveA2crankkooklive onenutbag
Close in meaning
  • a whimsically eccentric person:cranknutnut case

Word family

5 related words
Derivedcrackpot indexcrackpotitudecrackpotologycrackpotterycrackpotty

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crackingcracklecradlecraftB1

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