crazy
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zi adjective
1.
mentally deranged; demented; insane.
2.
senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.
3.
Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited: crazy about baseball.
4.
Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about ): He was crazy about her.
5.
Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.
6.
Informal. unusual; bizarre; singular: She always wears a crazy hat.
7.
Slang. wonderful; excellent; perfect: That's crazy, man, crazy.
8.
likely to break or fall to pieces.
9.
weak, infirm, or sickly.
10.
having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: a crazy reel that spins in either direction.
noun
11.
Slang. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.
12.
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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Crazy
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
13.
like crazy,
a.
Slang. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.
b.
with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.
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crazy (ˈkreɪzɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -zier, -ziest | |
| 1. | informal insane |
| 2. | fantastic; strange; ridiculous: a crazy dream |
| 3. | informal (postpositive; |
| 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
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
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
crazy
In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy, also see drive someone crazy; like crazy.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Example sentences
Dreaming is not bad, it's what keep everyone somewhat sane in this crazy world.
Using crazy characters to subvert the music industry isn't entirely novel.
It only offers a day view and a month view-it doesn't have a week view, which drives me crazy.
Four were loaded on the donkey's back, secured in a crazy jumble by a tangle of plastic twine and bungee cords.
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