Wingnut

Wingnut may refer to:

Entertainment

• Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky, a video game created by Rocket Science Games
• Wingnut, a character in the Care Bears franchise introduced in the movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!
• Wingnut (TMNT), a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise
• WingNuts: Temporal Navigator, a computer game created by Freeverse Software

Sports

• Nickname of Robert Weaver (surfer) (born 1965), an American surfer
• Wichita Wingnuts, a Wichita, Kansas, baseball team
• Nickname of Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist
• WingNuts, name of a capsized Sportboat involving fatalities in the 2011 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

Slang terms

• Wingnut (politics), an American slang term for a person who holds extreme political (especially right-wing) views
• Wingnut, an eccentric person
• Wingnut, a fan of the NBC television drama series The West Wing
• Wingnut, a fan of the Detroit Red Wings
• Wingnut, a fan of the video game series Wing Commander
• Wingnut, military slang for members of the United States Air Force
• Wingnut, a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle enthusiast
• Wingnut, an Australian term for someone whose ears stick out

Other uses

• Pterocarya, a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
• WingNut Films, Peter Jackson's film production company
• Wingnut (hardware), a nut with a pair of wings to enable it to be easily turned by hand without the need for any tools.