crazy

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♦ cra|zy /kr'eɪzi/ (crazier craziest crazies)
1 [ADJ]
If you describe someone or something as crazy, you think they are very foolish or strange. (INFORMAL)
People thought they were all crazy to try to make money from manufacturing...
That's why he's got so caught up with this crazy idea about Mr. Trancas.
● crazily [ADV] ADV after v, ADV adj
The teenagers shook their long, black hair and gesticulated crazily...
2 [ADJ]
Someone who is crazy is insane. (INFORMAL)
If I sat home and worried about all this stuff, I'd go crazy...
He strides around the room beaming like a crazy man.
= mad
[N-COUNT]
Crazy is also a noun.
Outside, mumbling, was one of New York's ever-present crazies.
= loony
3 [ADJ] v-link ADJ about n
If you are crazy about something, you are very enthusiastic about it. If you are not crazy about something, you do not like it. (INFORMAL)
He's still crazy about both his work and his hobbies...
= mad
[COMB in ADJ]
Crazy is also a combining form.
Every football-crazy schoolboy in Europe dreams of one day being involved in the championships.
4 [ADJ] v-link ADJ about n
If you are crazy about someone, you are deeply in love with them. (INFORMAL)
None of that matters, because we're crazy about each other.
5 [ADJ] v-link ADJ
If something or someone makes you crazy or drives you crazy, they make you extremely annoyed or upset. (INFORMAL)
This sitting around is driving me crazy...
When Jock woke up and found you gone he went crazy.
= mad
6 [PHRASE] PHR after v
You use like crazy to emphasize that something happens to a great degree. (INFORMAL)
The stuff was selling like crazy...
= like madcra|zy pav|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Crazy paving is pieces of stone of different shapes fitted together to make a path or flat area.

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