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crazy

[ krey-zee ]
/ ˈkreɪ zi /
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adjective, cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est.

noun, plural cra·zies.

Slang. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.
the crazies, Slang. a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up belowdecks for so long.

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RELATED WORDS

rapid, unexpected, hasty, nimble, sudden, abrupt, quick, speedy, expeditious, agile, brisk, hot, swift, badly, seriously, fiercely, greatly, dangerously, perilously, short

Nearby words

  1. craze,
  2. crazed,
  3. crazedly,
  4. crazily,
  5. craziness,
  6. crazy about, be,
  7. crazy bone,
  8. crazy eights,
  9. crazy golf,
  10. crazy horse

Idioms

    like crazy,
    1. Slang. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.
    2. with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.

Origin of crazy

First recorded in 1570–80; craze + -y1
SYNONYMS FOR crazy
1 crazed, lunatic. See mad.
2 foolish, imprudent, foolhardy.
8 rickety, shaky, tottering.
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Related formscra·zi·ly, adverbcra·zi·ness, nounhalf-cra·zy, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for like crazy

crazy

/ (ˈkreɪzɪ) /

adjective -zier or -ziest

informal insane
fantastic; strange; ridiculousa crazy dream
(postpositive; foll by about or over) informal extremely fond (of)
slang very good or excellent

noun plural crazies

informal a crazy person
Derived Formscrazily, adverbcraziness, noun
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

Word Origin and History for like crazy

crazy

adj.

1570s, "diseased, sickly," from craze + -y (2). Meaning "full of cracks or flaws" is from 1580s; that of "of unsound mind, or behaving as so" is from 1610s. Jazz slang sense "cool, exciting" attested by 1927. To drive (someone) crazy is attested by 1873. Phrase crazy like a fox recorded from 1935. Crazy Horse, Teton Lakhota (Siouan) war leader (d.1877) translates thašuka witko, literally "his horse is crazy."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper

Idioms and Phrases with like crazy (1 of 2)

like crazy

Also, like mad; like nobody's business. With exceeding enthusiasm or speed, without restraint. For example, We shopped like crazy and bought all our furniture in one day, or Once he's out of the town limits he drives like mad, or The choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus like nobody's business. The first terms employ crazy and mad in the sense of “lunatic” as a hyperbole for lack of restraint; the third implies that no business could be conducted in such an extraordinary fashion. The first and third date from the 1920s, the second from the mid-1600s.

Idioms and Phrases with like crazy (2 of 2)

crazy

In addition to the idioms beginning with crazy

  • crazy about, be
  • crazy like a fox

also see:

  • drive someone crazy
  • like crazy
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.