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adjective

Crazy adj.

Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. "Piles of mean andcrazy houses." "One of great riches, but a crazy constitution." "They... got a crazy boat to carry them to the island."

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. "Over moist and crazy brains."

Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. (Colloq.) "The girls were crazy to be introduced to him."

Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; called also funny bone.

Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.

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Etymology of 'Crazy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crazy" Quotes from Famous Books

... her like a child in his arms, he carried her across the meadow, back to the house, and down a flight of crazy steps into the cellar, where a little forge was all ablaze with white-hot coal, and the two ill-visaged men she well knew by sight were busy with sets of odd tools and fragments of metal, while on a bench near by, and in the seat of an old chair, lay piles ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

... think of all the crazy cases of mass-hysteria—that baseball-game riot in Baltimore; the time everybody started tearing off each others' clothes in Milwaukee; the sex-orgy in New Orleans. And the sharp uptrend in individual psycho-neurotic ...

— Hunter Patrol • Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire

... crazy! Have I got to sell you the idea of Style? Anyway that's the kind of stuff I'd like to do for the Zeeco. But I simply can't. So I decided to stick to the straight poetic, and I took a shot at a highbrow ad for the Zeeco. ...

— Babbitt • Sinclair Lewis

... right in the wall so I tried to git it out with my jack knife, when along came that durned black jumpin' jack dressed in soldier clothes and ast me what I wanted, and I told him I didn't want anything perticler, then he told me to quit ringin' the bell, guess he wuz a little crazy, I didn't see no bell. Wall, finally I got my clothes on and went into a room whar they had a row of little troughs to wash in, and fast as I could pump water in the durned thing it run out of a little hole in the bottom of the trough so I jest had to grab a handful and ...

— Uncles Josh's Punkin Centre Stories • Cal Stewart

... armed phantom; and another paper, deriving its information from some malicious source, had published two days after Albert's departure for Normandy the few lines which had rendered the unfortunate young man almost crazy. ...

— The Count of Monte Cristo • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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