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Crazy

[krey-zee]

Origin

adjective

mentally deranged; demented; insane.

senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.

Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited: crazy about baseball.

Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about): He was crazy about her.

Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.

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Informal. unusual; bizarre; singular: She always wears a crazy hat.

Slang. wonderful; excellent; perfect: That's crazy, man, crazy.

likely to break or fall to pieces.

weak, infirm, or sickly.

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having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: a crazy reel that spins in either direction.

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noun

11.

Slang. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.

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the crazies, Slang. a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up belowdecks for so long.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Idiom

13.

like crazy,

Slang. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.

with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.

Origin:
1570–80; craze + -y¹

Related forms

cra·zi·ly, adverb

cra·zi·ness, noun

half-cra·zy, adjective

Synonyms
1. crazed, lunatic. See mad. 2. foolish, imprudent, foolhardy. 8. rickety, shaky, tottering.

Antonyms
1. sane. 3. calm, dispassionate. 8. stable. 9. strong; healthy.

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World English Dictionary

crazy (ˈkreɪzɪ)

—*adj* , -zier, -ziest
1.	informal insane
2.	fantastic; strange; ridiculous: a crazy dream
3.	informal (postpositive; foll by about or over) extremely fond (of)
4.	slang very good or excellent

—n , -zier, -ziest, crazies
5.	informal a crazy person

'crazily

—*adv*

'craziness

—n

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Word Origin & History

crazy

1570s, "diseased, sickly, from craze; meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded

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from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thauka witko, lit. "his horse is crazy."

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Slang Dictionary

crazy definition

n.
a crazy person. : The guy's a crazy, and he keeps coming in here asking for money.
mod.
cool. : This stuff is really crazy, man. I love it!

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Idioms & Phrases

crazy

In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy, also see drive someone crazy; like crazy.