- a variation of wacky.
whacky
Americanadjective
adjective
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Two elephants trudged across a makeshift football field at Mexico's Guadalajara Zoo in a whacky attempt to predict the score of the 2026 World Cup's opening game.
From Barron's ● Jun. 6, 2026
Instead of disseminating useful information and debating important ideas, the internet is too often used to promote whacky theories and titillate users with inane gossip.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023
His creativity inspires me, and I often find myself pitching my friends on whacky ideas in an attempt to recreate the environment that Kenny has created.
From The Verge ● Aug. 9, 2022
Paul Lieberstein, a writer and actor for “The Office,” had a whacky idea for a story about a bored spaceship captain who goes on comedic tangents while traveling the galaxy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
As the Pantomime and Music-hall poet sang, "Tooral looral lido, whacky smacky smack!"
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
We did the easy ones first, like unlimited screens and sweets, stay up all night; but then we thought of some whackier ones.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2018
But Heffernan has long celebrated the aesthetic potential of the web’s whackier and more whimsical corners.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2016
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