bananas
- crazy; deranged: All that chatter is driving me bananas.
- wildly enthusiastic: The crowd went bananas when the music began.
Origin of bananas
banana
- a tropical plant of the genus Musa, certain species of which are cultivated for their nutritious fruit.Compare banana family.
- the fruit, especially that of M. paradisiaca, with yellow or reddish rind.
Origin of banana
Related Words for bananas
crazy, lunatic, cuckoo, maniac, nuts, sick, psycho, crackers, bonkers, brainsick, daft, demented, deranged, distraught, disturbed, dotty, kooky, loco, mad, maniacalExamples from the Web for bananas
Contemporary Examples of bananas
Duarte owns a small plot of land where she grazes cattle and grows beans, maize, bananas, and oranges.
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.
Medical errors in television shows and movies drive me bananas.
Zoe has come a long way since her days of screaming “I die” and “Bananas!”
Historical Examples of bananas
No artillery was captured, but a great quantity of bananas was taken.
The bananas of this region were found to be especially luscious and appetizing.
Aztec LandMaturin M. Ballou
He is advising all his customers to feed their babies on bananas.
Olive produced her biscuits and bananas, and they munched together in amity.
Olive in ItalyMoray Dalton
At first the greengrocer's baby did not like bananas and its cries were awful.
bananas
- slang crazy (esp in the phrase go bananas)
banana
- any of several tropical and subtropical herbaceous treelike plants of the musaceous genus Musa, esp M. sapientum, a widely cultivated species propagated from suckers and having hanging clusters of edible fruit
- the crescent-shaped fruit of any of these plantsCompare plantain 2
Word Origin for banana
Word Origin and History for bananas
"crazy," 1968; earlier (1935) it was noted as an underworld slang term for "sexually perverted."
banana
1590s, borrowed by Spanish or Portuguese from a West African word, possibly Wolof banana. The plant was introduced to the New World from Africa in 1516. Top banana, second banana, etc. are 1950s, from show business slang use of banana for "comedian, especially in a burlesque show." Banana split first attested 1920. Banana oil "nonsense" is slang from c.1910.
Idioms and Phrases with bananas
banana
In addition to the idiom beginning with banana
- banana oil
also see:
- drive someone crazy (bananas)
- go bananas
- top banana