crazy

adj

1. Of unsound mind; insane; demented.

   “His ideas were both frightening and crazy.”

   “Those words appearing to be merely the ravings of superannuation, they were not regarded; but when no other traces of Mary could be found, old Andrew went up to consult this crazy dame once more, but he was not able to bring any such thing to her recollection.”

   “Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.”

   “Now think of all the years you tried to Find someone to satisfy you I might be as crazy as you say If I'm crazy then it's true That it's all because of you And you wouldn't want me any other way”

   “Grab-a-cop-gun kinda crazy / She's poison but tasty / Yeah, people say "Run, don't walk, away"”

2. Out of control.

   “When she gets on the motorcycle she goes crazy.”

3. Very excited or enthusiastic.

   “He went crazy when he won.”

   “The girls were crazy to be introduced to him.”

   “The craziest, most extraordinary banger race on the planet: 10,000+ miles from Prague to Siberia.”

4. In love; experiencing romantic feelings.

   “Why is she so crazy about him?”

5. (informal)Very unexpected; wildly surprising.

   “crazy work”

   “The game had a crazy ending.”

   “[…] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.”

   “We'd like to think such a kooky idea has no shot at getting on the ballot, like the previous attempts by the two main Calexiters — Marcus Ruiz Evans and Louis J. Marinelli — to get some sort of secession proposal on the ballot. But crazier things have happened.”

   ““It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.”

6. (obsolete)Flawed or damaged; unsound, liable to break apart; ramshackle.

   “Buchanan shewed her into a room adjoining to Mr. Steele's dressing-room, and separated from it by a very crazy partition.”

   “Piles of mean and crazy houses.”

   “They […] got a crazy boat to carry them to the island.”

   “Casement windows opened, crazy doors were unbarred, and people came forth shivering—chilled, as yet, by the new sweet air.”

7. (obsolete)Sickly, frail; diseased.

   “Over moist and crazy brains.”

   “One of great riches, but a crazy constitution.”

   “My poor aunt has often told me […] how long she herself was apprehensive lest my crazy frame, which is now of common shape, should remain for ever crooked and deformed.”

adv

1. (slang)Very, extremely.

   “That trick was crazy good.”

   “I'm flat out. It's crazy stupid here, Kim.”

noun

1. (countable, slang)An insane or eccentric person; a crackpot.

   “Now drink up, you knuckleheads! Have a blast! It's our night, you crazies! Chloe, where are you?”

2. (slang, uncountable)Eccentric behaviour; lunacy; craziness.

   “Then again, her whole evening was full of crazy, and she didn't know what else to do.”