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   Wing nut

   /ˈwiNG ˌnət/

   

   noun

   • 1. a nut with a pair of projections for the fingers to screw it on.
   • 2. a mad or crazy person: informal, derogatory US "some wingnut down in Finance"
   • ▪ a person with extreme, typically right-wing, views: "McCarthyite wingnuts"
   • 3. an Asian tree of the walnut family, with a deeply fissured trunk, compound leaves, and characteristic broad-winged nutlets.

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