- plural of banana.
bananas
Americanadjective
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crazy; deranged.
All that chatter is driving me bananas.
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wildly enthusiastic.
The crowd went bananas when the music began.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bananas
Example Sentences
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And then one day, when I had a bunch of almost-rotten bananas sitting on my kitchen counter, I threw them together and made a cake.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
This is, to use a technical term, bananas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Photographs and videos widely shared online show the young apes sitting together on the forest floor and eating bananas, thousands of kilometres from the tropical rainforests where they belong.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Whole fruits included apples, oranges, bananas, mangos, grapes, pears, melons, strawberries and peaches.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
If he arrived in camp and couldn’t find any bananas, he would walk into my tent and search.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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