Nutball

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A crazy person. informal

    "Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often."

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"Hull was much less of a nutball than most of them, and the CIA station chief started coming around more and more often."

Etymology

From nut + ball.

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