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Alternative forms

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• cra-cra
• cray cray

Etymology

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From crazy by shortening and reduplication.

Pronunciation

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• Audio (General Australian):

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Adjective

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cray-cray (comparative more cray-cray, superlative most cray-cray)

1. (slang) Crazy.
   • 2011, Jessica Verday, The Hidden, Simon Pulse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 90:“Lewis again. The boy cannot get over our breakup. He's like this little puppy dog that follows me around, and it's just driving me cray-cray.”
   • 2012 April 27, “Hiddleston: There's hope for Loki”, in Belfast Telegraph:"What fascinates me about Loki is that there is a glimmer of redemption in him somewhere, that he's not cray-cray (crazy). […]
   • 2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply‎[1], Signet Eclipse, published 2013, →ISBN:“Are you high?” asked Dove suspiciously. She squinted at Patsy. “Because that's cray-cray.”
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cray-cray.

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• See Thesaurus:insane.

Translations

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Catalan: boig (ca) French: dérangé (fr) (literally “deranged”) Italian: pazzo (it) Latin: dēlīrus, īnsānus (la) Portuguese: doido (pt) Spanish: zumbado

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