Definition of crackpot

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crack·pot

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NOUN:

An eccentric person, especially one with bizarre ideas.

ADJECTIVE:

Foolish; harebrained: a crackpot notion.

ETYMOLOGY:
crack(ed) + pot¹ skull (obsolete)

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