madcap
mad kap
- n a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
- s characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish' is archaic)
madcap escapades
- But a mock advertisement in Lampoon's 1973 Encyclopedia of Humor brought the magazine's madcap staffers some serious trouble.
- A cult success on a madcap radio show and a few comedy records that could have been it for Sellers.
- The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic or eccentric, can seize and hold national .