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bananas

[ buh-nan-uhz ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. crazy; deranged:

    All that chatter is driving me bananas.

  2. wildly enthusiastic:

    The crowd went bananas when the music began.



bananas

/ bəˈnɑːnəz /

adjective

  1. slang.
    crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas )
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bananas1

1965–70, Americanism; banana, -s 3
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Example Sentences

Duarte owns a small plot of land where she grazes cattle and grows beans, maize, bananas, and oranges.

Just pop a few bananas on a turntable and you've got yourself a casual kick back!

The Crossfit community is going to go bananas for this tech.

I love its late daylight against old building facades; its 30-cent bananas from the stands on the corner; its new bike lanes.

At the checkout, her total for bananas, arugula, blackberries, kale, yogurt, rice noodles, and tofu comes to $34.21.

Besides, there is always a bunch of bananas hanging inside the house, and he has sugar-cane in abundance.

Immense plantations of rice, skirted by bananas and other fruit-trees, extend along the banks of the Pearl stream.

One day all the bananas on that table disappeared and my family blamed the servants for eating all the fruit in the house.

(→) a bananas that are thin and lacking in flesh from improper development, and by extension, other fruits and vegetables.

A sleepy, honest little donkey, loaded with baskets of very diminutive bananas, came our way.

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