crazy
adjective
1.
2.
- “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”
6.
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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