Crackpot
For the Yorkshire village, see Crackpot, North Yorkshire.Crackpot most generally means a capriciously
eccentric person. In various other uses, the term can mean:
* Pejoratively, the term
Crackpot is used against a person, subjectively also called a
crank, who writes or speaks in an authoritative fashion about a particular subject, often in science, but is alleged to have false or even ludicrous beliefs.
*Someone addicted to
crack (i.e. a
drug addict) also known as a "crackhead."
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Crank (person)
