stir-crazy

[ stur-krey-zee ]

/ ˈstɜrˌkreɪ zi /

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adjective Slang.

Informal. restless or frantic because of confinement, routine, etc.: I was stir-crazy after just two months of keeping house.

mentally ill because of long imprisonment.

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Origin of stir-crazy

First recorded in 1935–40; stir² + crazy

OTHER WORDS FROM stir-crazy

stir-cra·zi·ness, noun

Words nearby stir-crazy

stipulation, stipule, stipuliform, stir, stirabout, stir-crazy, stir-fried, stir-fry, stirk, Stirling, Stirling engine

How to use stir-crazy in a sentence

You were basically the guy to do every dictator or crazy character, from Gaddafi and Ahmadinejad to Bin Laden.
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"That was crazy," Lynn Jenkins of Kansas muttered to another member as she walked to greet Boehner.
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He came to Phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
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Just who is crazy enough to go swimming when the pond across the street has a layer of ice across the top?
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That goodness steered him clear of the Sex Boys, the Crazy Homicides, the Sons of Nuns, and the other gangs of East New York.
In The Shadow of Murdered Cops|Michael Daly|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The beauty, the mystery,—this fierce sunshine or something—stir——' She hesitated for a fraction of a second.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
All Weimar adores him, and people say that women still go perfectly crazy over him.
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If it took years to do it, you shall never stir out of this house till it is done.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories|Kate Chopin
The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke

British Dictionary definitions for stir-crazy

stir-crazy

adjective

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

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