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UK
/kˈuːk/
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[ US /ˈkuk/ ]
[ US /ˈkuk/ ]
NOUN
- someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
How To Use kook In A Sentence
- In an effort to sanitize Paramount's portrait of a demimondaine, the studio publicity department churned out reams of flapdoodle, defining Holly as a "kook" rather than a B-girl. When Words Go Lightly to Screen
- From barbershop quartets to gospel close-harmony groups to doo-wop to the kooky a cappella experiments, vocals-only pop music has a long history.
- ‘He seeks out kooks and spends money like a drunken sailor in port,’ said RNC spokesman Michael Collins, obviously not the son of a Navy man.
- I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
- Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
- Allen also captured something in Keaton which can't be described except in cliches: kookiness, wackiness, ditsiness. The Guardian World News
- The moment somebody thinks they've nailed the grand alchemy that makes Dali a genius somebody else came along and offers a new, kookier explanation. The Birth of Girma Dali
- But, I figure those two wonderful, kooky kids could hook her up with the best places to go for music and fun.
- Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
- I wish the people here in VA could give a coherent answer to why they voted for kooky nellie as our AG .. Think Progress » Pawlenty Admits That ‘There’s Probably Some Political Overtones To’ Health Care Lawsuit