Definition of "wingnut" []

• A nut having wing-like projections so that it can be turned easily by hand (noun)
• A deciduous tree of the genus Pterocarya native to Asia (noun)
• A derogatory term for anyone perceived as odd, eccentric, and/or extreme (noun)
• Air Force personnel in towns that host a USAF installation (noun)

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• "Evidently, the term wingnut is so familiar as to be unobjectionable, and, perhaps in this context attacks exaggerated out of all credibility, at least by non-Bork standards it is, but the generally overbroad application of that term makes it problematic."
• "Only the spineless Liberal Left uses the term wingnut to describe the Right."
• "Anyway, the other day someone suggested to me that this kind of a read of the term wingnut might be why someone took the term moronic wingnut as being so offensive."