Meaning & use
Whackadoodle
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Informally, wildly eccentric, foolish, or absurd.
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The conspiracy theory he described was completely whackadoodle.
Her plan for the party involved some whackadoodle ideas, like a chocolate fountain in the bathtub.
A note on using this word
More commonly spelled "wackadoodle," this playful informal word was added to major dictionaries in the late 2010s to describe something comically bizarre or irrational.
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2. noun
Informally, a person who behaves in a wildly eccentric or irrational way.
Don't listen to that whackadoodle on the internet forum.
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