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fruitcake
- an eccentric or even mentally unstable person US, 1942
- — American Speech, p. 238, October 1946: “World War II slang of maladjustment”
- Easy, feller, easy. She’s a fruitcake. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 7, 1952
- Hey you, Blondie, you like fruitcake kids like that? — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 230, 1962
- — American Speech, Fall-Winter 1976
- United fruitcake outlet. — Repo Man, 1984
- People are starting to hate you, I mean, really hate you. Not just the usual fruitcakes, either. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 25, 1986
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 54, 1996
- KNIGHTY: Here comes Lieutenant Darcy Fruitcake the Fifth. MEGGY: He’s off his head, man. — Paul Freser and Shane Meadows, TwentyFourSeven, p. 12, 1997
- a blatantly homosexual man US, 1960
- I’d dress up like a fruitcake and stroll through the park, you know, asking for it. — Elmore Leonard, Freaky Deaky, p. 25, 1988
- The fascist fruitcake gasped when he saw the handcuffs securing the Tender Trap’s door handles. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 67, 1990
- “We’re calling that fruitcake display of yours strike one,” he announced. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 165, 1993
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 54, 1996
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