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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nutcase
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Tania is a major nutcase.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A nutcase, without a doubt.
▪ And Philip thought if anyone was a nutcase it was that boy in the wood.
▪ Apart, she thought drily, from complete nutcases like myself.
▪ As a result the Eurovision Song Contest delays a hard core of trivia-obsessed nutcases for four hours each year.
▪ My personal assistant was my high school sweetheart, Mrs Simpson, who was a complete nutcase.
Wiktionary
nutcase

n. 1 (context humorous English) An eccentric or odd person. 2 (context pejorative slang English) Someone who is insane.

WordNet
nutcase

n. a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball]

Wikipedia
Nutcase (film)

Nutcase is a 1980 caper film directed by Roger Donaldson.

Usage examples of "nutcase".

All that work to maintain health and well-being, and some nutcase comes along and nails you to a wall.

Skimped on the food, took the bread out of the mouths of the poor nutcases and loony birds in there.

No such sanctimony came from the mouths of these psycho nutcases with green hair and nipple rings.

The nutcases at PETA would chain themselves to the gates of our military bases, protesting the fact that bombs hurt wildlife and their natural habitat.

The nutcase who hated hackers, who hosted The Barrington Fireside Chat.

Get rid of Mercy, she's a nutcase anyway if you ask me, a right mental case.

Bug and some of his bitter, nutcase friends arrived with a wide selection of beer, and they were in good moods, sitting around playing peanut gallery to Hard Copy and A Current Affair, being amusing and eating half of Susan's party food while she was dressing.

He was a nutcase who was using children as sex objects and then writing books about it to make it look legitimate.

Even the cheapest, sleaziest hotel room has an inhibiting effect on a rapist or mugger or nutcase.

When told he was on Branch Avenue approaching the Suitland Parkway, the controllers thought he was a nutcase and ordered him sharply to get off the radio.

First, knowing that he's off Minbar, every bounty hunter, every crackpot, every nutcase is going to turn out in force looking for him.