numbnuts

plural numbnutses · alternative numb-nuts · alternative numb nut

1. USderogatoryhumorousoftenslangsometimesterm of addressA slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person (usually male).

   Tell numbnuts over there to wake up and pay attention to his work.

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   What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?

   1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey)

   And White House officials, using official government accounts, seem to be in a pit-bull contest to be the nastiest on any given day, upbraiding anyone perceived to be an adversary: “Total hack and loser.” “Wrong again, numbnuts.”

   2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC