"whackjob" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "* whack(y) + job(bie)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whackjobs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "whackjob (plural whackjobs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        {
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          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
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            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch",
          "text": "\"He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War",
          "text": "One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie\nRonald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A crazy, possibly dangerous, person."
      ],
      "id": "en-whackjob-en-noun-6vZaQCAD",
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "crazy",
          "crazy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, derogatory) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "basket case"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "freak"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "loony"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "nutjob"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "nutter"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "screwball"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "wacko"
        },
        {
          "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
          "word": "wingnut"
        },
        {
          "word": "wackjob"
        },
        {
          "word": "whack job"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈ(h)wækd͡ʒɑb/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwækd͡ʒɒb/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whackjob"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "* whack(y) + job(bie)",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "whackjobs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "whackjob (plural whackjobs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:People"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch",
          "text": "\"He called the guy who owns the gun shop a 'whackjob' and said he's going to take him down if it's the last thing he does.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Michael Graham, Redneck Nation: How the South Really Won the War",
          "text": "One of America's most prominent Confederistas is Michael Hill, head whackjob at the looney League of the South—an obscure organization that has already declared southern cultural independence.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2004: Mark. St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie\nRonald Reagan took his oath as the fortieth president in American history and, three months later, took a bullet from some wackjob trying to impress the future star of The Silence of the Lambs."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A crazy, possibly dangerous, person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "crazy",
          "crazy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, derogatory) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈ(h)wækd͡ʒɑb/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwækd͡ʒɒb/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "basket case"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "freak"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "loony"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "nutjob"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "nutter"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "screwball"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "wacko"
    },
    {
      "sense": "crazy, possibly dangerous person",
      "word": "wingnut"
    },
    {
      "word": "wackjob"
    },
    {
      "word": "whack job"
    }
  ],
  "word": "whackjob"
}