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kook noun- a mentally disturbed person US, 1922
- [S]omeone reads a request from the Monterey County Board of Supervisors that citizens fly American flags to show that "Kooks, Commies, and Cowards do not represent our County." — Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, p. 70, 1968
- The attorney for the prosecution did his best to make Dale and Ed appear as kooks and freaks who dealt only with other kooks and freaks. — Arthur Blessitt, Turned On to Jesus, p. 3, 1971
- So, maybe we’re not the kook capital we thought we were. — Joe Bob Briggs, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, p. 67, 1987
- Now, Bruce is no kook. — Howard Stern, Miss America, p. 118, 1995
- Fergus, I know, does not approve of Higher Consciousness tapes and God Insight Boxes and psychics and angels [...] "Kooks." "That’s easy to say," I reply, "but if enough people believe it, you can’t just write it off." — Melanie McGrath, Motel Nirvana, 1995
- an unskilled novice surfer or snowboarder US
- The word among the kooks is that lifeguards are nothing but plain mackerels. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, p. 48, 1961
- Move it, kook! — Point Break, 1991
- in television and film-making, a light screen designed to cast shadows US
- — Ralph S. Singleton, Filmaker’s Dictionary, p. 91, 1990
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