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crazy quilt

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crazy quilt

–noun
1. a patchwork quilt made of irregular patches combined with little or no regard to pattern.
2. something that is irregular in pattern or shape, and suggestive of a crazy quilt; patchwork.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism


crazy-quilt, adjective
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crazy quilt  
n.  
  1. A patchwork quilt of pieces of cloth of various shapes, colors, and sizes, sewn together in an irregular pattern.

  2. A disorderly mixture; a hodgepodge: The map was a crazy quilt of districts and precincts.

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