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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wacko
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He was innocent on grounds of being wacko.
▪ Ruby Wax found some real wackos in West Virginia-loons who use poisonous snakes in religious ceremonies.
▪ Soon, the talk-show producer decides she has not found Mr Right but a certifiable wacko.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wacko

extended form of wack, by 1971.

Wiktionary
wacko

a. amusingly eccentric or irrational. interj. (context British dated English) hurrah! n. An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.

WordNet
wacko

n. a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: nutter, whacko]

Wikipedia
Wacko

Wacko is a 1983 arcade game by Bally Midway. It debuted during the " Golden Age of Arcade Games". It featured a unique angled, or "sloped" cabinet design and a combination of trackball and joystick controls.

Wacko (TV series)

Wacko is an American half-hour children's television series that aired on CBS on Saturday mornings. The show was a live action variety show featuring skits and musical numbers. The show only had 10 episodes, from September 10, 1977 through November 12, 1977.

One recurring skit was called "Clown Doctor", in which a doctor (that happened to be a clown) would call for his nurse by yelling "Noiss Noiss". The harebrained nurse would enter, causing Clown Doctor to point at his forehead (with a camera close-up on him) and say, "Nobody home... vacant".

Wacko (film)

Wacko is a 1982 horror- parody film directed by Greydon Clark and starring Joe Don Baker and George Kennedy.

Wacko (disambiguation)

Wacko is a 1983 arcade game by Bally Midway.

Wacko may also refer to:

  • Wacko (film), a 1982 American horror film parody
  • Wacko (TV series), a short-lived 1977 American variety television series
  • Wacko, a member of the American rap group UTP
  • a track on the album Carpe Diem

Usage examples of "wacko".

The last thing we need is for all those wackos up around Cascabel to choose sides and start throwing stones.

When ultra-liberalism takes over the mind of a city, streets are no longer safe, people are defenseless, and wackos with weapons get free handouts.

All in all, they didn't fit the image of a couple of detoxing wackos.

You can choose to expose the wackos in the industry who are dumbing down our schools with bogus textbooks.

The car pulled into the JSC compound off NASA Road One, and she drove past gleaming, antiquated Moon rockets: freshly restored, spectacularly useless, heavily guarded from the new breed of antiscience wackos.

A New Age hardware store had come and gone, as had a veritable parade of wackos including porn moviemakers, tabloid reporters, feminist rabble-rousers, and militants.