stir-crazy

[stur-krey-zee]

adjective

Slang.

1. Informal.,  restless or frantic because of confinement, routine, etc..

   I was stir-crazy after just two months of keeping house.

2. mentally ill because of long imprisonment.

stir-crazy

adjective

1. slang,  mentally disturbed as a result of being in prison or otherwise confined

Other Word Forms

• stir-craziness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of stir-crazy¹

First recorded in 1935–40; stir ² + crazy

Example Sentences

And, to keep from going stir-crazy as they wait for the lesions to heal, they bond over a shared experience none of them asked for.

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Kaplan added, “To put a whale in a concrete tank is very much like putting a human in solitary confinements. It is torture. It is taking an animal out of its element. They get stir-crazy.”

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When I was getting too stir-crazy, I would try to let Hank’s optimism shine through.

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I didn’t mind it, but Gram, who hated being cooped up inside, went a little stir-crazy.

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Those little critters can go stir-crazy in a long rain and peck each other to death.

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