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  • n  any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia
  • n  a threaded nut with winglike projections for thumb and forefinger leverage in turning

  • Not surprisingly, all of them--with the exception of a single rambling 911 conspiracy wing-nut--were about the health care debate.
  • He's brilliantly played by Chris Cooper in Billy Ray's trim and nicely understated film as a brilliant, angry wing-nut, at once a devout religious fanatic, a porn user-creator and .
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  • Letter: Don't print views of global-warming deniers
    Just weeks after I chided FLORIDA TODAY for printing wing-nut falsehoods, you allowed your op-ed page to be the platform for national global warming naysayer Charles Krauthammer, in his Sunday column, “ ‘Settled science’ myth.”
    Feb. 25, 2014 - The Bay Bulletin

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