Wingnut may refer to:

• A wingnut or wing nut, a nut (hardware), with a pair of wings to enable it to be turned without tools
• Wingnut (plant) (Pterocarya), a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
• Wingnut (politics), a derogatory American slang term for a person who holds strongly right-wing political beliefs, shortened from "right wing nut".

Media

• Wing Nuts: Battle in the Skies, 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
• WingNut Films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson's film production company
• Wingnut Interactive, a video game developer also lead by Peter Jackson

Slang terms

• 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 name for an eccentric person.

See also

• Wingnuts (baseball), Wichita, Kansas new baseball team