Nutso

//ˈnʌ.t͡soʊ// adj, adv, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Crazy, insane. colloquial

    ""You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases.""

  2. 2
    Fraught or out of control. colloquial

    "How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas."

  3. 3
    Obsessed; overly enthusiastic. colloquial

    "Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today."

  4. 4
    Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly. colloquial

    "Forget the mechanical, materlial, solid model of communication, bring in the invisible but very real web rings. Internet, hacking and so on; puerile conversations of chat pages, insane obsessions with nutso things."

Adverb
  1. 1
    Madly; extremely or obsessively. colloquial

    "I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!"

  2. 2
    In a crazy manner. colloquial

    "I'm working at the ink-jet machine running a job...then I hear a weird noise I but I can't really tell what it is over the sound of the machine right.. .then I think I hear a whimper...all of a sudden my step mom bursts out from her office all nutso saying..."where is your father, where is your father""

Noun
  1. 1
    A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic. colloquial, countable

    "You know, some computer nerd rapist killer nutso builds a fantasy around her, crashes a party whereshe's supposed to be, she laughs himoff, says she'd rather be fuckin' her girlfriends than a pimply little freak--"

  2. 2
    Craziness; insanity. colloquial, uncountable

    "I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From nuts + -o.

Etymology 2

From nuts + -o.

Etymology 3

From nuts + -o.

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