fruitloop

A crazy person; a lunatic.

Noun

  1. A crazy person; a lunatic.
    • I don't want Jimmy's attorney to rip you up and down in front of a jury and make you out to be, frankly, a vicious and insane fruitloop […] - 1983, John Gassner, Best American Plays:
    • Can't have no fruitloop with his finger on the button. Cokeheads maybe, but not a fruitloop. This country has high standards. - 2003, Ralph Lopez, American Dream:
    • That poor guy is already busting his hump, learning his job, working sixteen or eighteen hours a day for some fruitloop who throws pens when he gets mad. - 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club:

Origin

Perhaps from fruity and loopy, possibly influenced by the Froot Loops brand of breakfast cereal.

Forms

fruitloops fruit loop

Related

fruit loops

Derived

fruitloopery