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crazy

US/ˈkɹeɪ.zi/ very common informal slang

adjective

1.
2.

foolish; totally unsound

  • “an impractical solution”
  • “a crazy scheme”
  • “half-baked ideas”
  • “a screwball proposal without a prayer of working”
3.

marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

  • “she was crazy about him”
  • “gaga over the rock group”
  • “;”
4.

possessed by inordinate excitement

  • “the crowd went crazy”
  • “was crazy to try his new bicycle”
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5.

bizarre or fantastic

  • “had a crazy dream”
  • “wore a crazy hat”
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6.

intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with

  • “crazy about cars and racing”

noun

Origin

From craze (“to crush”) + -y, akin to being "crazed up". Compare cracked up (“suffered a mental breakdown; be insane”), crackpot. Compare typologically Russian чо́кнутый (čóknutyj).

Phrases

  • boy crazy
  • crazy ant
  • crazy as a bedbug
  • crazy as a cootie
  • crazy as a cootie bug
  • crazy as a fox
  • crazy as a pet coon
  • crazy as a shithouse rat

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