Wingnut

Wingnut may refer to:

• Wingnut (hardware), a nut with a pair of wings to enable it to be turned without tools, used where frequent adjustments are needed or part removal can be made quickly at some later stage
• Pterocarya, a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
• Wingnut (politics), an American slang term for a person who holds extreme political (especially right-wing) views; compare with "moonbat"

Entertainment, media, and sports

• Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky, a video game created by Rocket Science Games
• Wingnut (Care Bears), a character in the Care Bears franchise introduced in the movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It! and persisted into the new TV series Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot
• Wingnut, a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
• Several enterprises of New Zealand director Peter Jackson
  • WingNut Films, Jackson's film production company
  • Wingnut Interactive, a video game developer led by Peter Jackson
  • Wingnut Wings, Jackson's World War I model making company
• WingNuts: Temporal Navigator, a computer game created by Freeverse Software
• WingNuts 2: Raina's Revenge, the sequel to WingNuts: Temporal Navigator
• Wichita Wingnuts, a Wichita, Kansas baseball team
• Robert "Wingnut" Weaver, an American surfer

Slang terms

• Wingnut, a name for an eccentric person
• Wingnut (squat), a series of squatted warehouses, apartment buildings, and houses in Cleveland, Ohio
• Wingnut, a term to describe a fan of the Detroit Red Wings
• Wingnut ear, a derogatory term for, or a person with, ears that stick out
• Wingnut (haircut), New Zealand slang for someone who had the "short-back and sides" haircut style of the 1940s and 50s
• Wingnut, military slang for members of the United States Air Force
• Wingnut, a term to describe a fan of the NBC television drama series The West Wing
• Wingnut, a person with a hobby-level of interest in the White House and its architecture, and/or the Presidency of the United States
• Wingnut, a person who is crazy about all things that fly
• Wingnut, a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle enthusiast