cockeyed
[kok-ahyd]
adjective
having a squinting eye.
twisted, tilted, or slanted to one side.
Slang.
- foolish; absurd.
- intoxicated; drunk.
- completely wrong.
RELATED WORDS
absurd, askance, asymmetrical, awry, crazy, crooked, lopsided, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, squint, askant, cam, canted, cross-eyed, strabismic
Origin of cockeyed
Synonyms for cockeyed
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Examples from the Web for cockeyed
Contemporary Examples of cockeyed
He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.
Historical Examples of cockeyed
Anyway, in this cockeyed war you can look for enemy agents any place, and usually find them.
Dave Dawson on the Russian FrontR. Sidney Bowen
But it was like trying to wake himself up out of the middle of a crazy, cockeyed dream.
Dave Dawson on GuadalcanalRobert Sydney Bowen
And I sure would like to know what is the next move in this cockeyed arrangement of things?
Dave Dawson with the CommandosR. Sidney Bowen
Except on the one subject of that cockeyed invention of his, he behaved perfectly normally.
Gone FishingJames H. Schmitz
Well, I'd had the cockeyed kind of luck to go bald at 25 and I'd been playing old men ever since.
The Old Die RichHorace Leonard Gold
cockeyed
adjective informal
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