Kook

Quick meaning: Kook is a noun meaning (surfing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

Meaning

(surfing, kiteboarding, wakeboarding) A boardsport participant who lacks style or skill; a newbie who acts as if they are better at the sport than they are.

More Meanings

1. (slang, chiefly US) An eccentric, strange or crazy person.

Example Sentences

The administration’s deep cuts to scientific and medical research have been compounded by Trump’s decision to hand control of public health to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a bona fide kook,[…].

The kook we will always have with us, to paraphrase Jesus, but the kooks of yore had to work to maintain their kookery and locate fellow kooks. They had to pick up their kook phone, subscribe to the kook newsletter, drive to the kook convention. Nowadays, all the kook has to do is log in to Facebook, where his feed will be enlivened by the chatter of fellow — and likely more extreme — kooks, toward which Facebook’s algorithms helpfully steer him.

Word Forms

• kooks

Synonyms for kook

Depending on context, synonyms include nutjob, weirdo, crack, crackpot, crazy, crazyhead.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include wacko, crackpot, nutcase, lunatic, madman, psycho.

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