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Nutso
Definitions
- 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 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 Obsessed; overly enthusiastic. colloquial
"Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today."
- 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."
- 1 Madly; extremely or obsessively. colloquial
"I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!"
- 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""
- 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 Craziness; insanity. colloquial, uncountable
"I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso."
Etymology
From nuts + -o.
From nuts + -o.
From nuts + -o.
See also for "nutso"
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