transcription, транскрипция: [ kreɪzi ]
( crazier, craziest, crazies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
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.
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• cra‧zi‧ly
The teenagers shook their long, black hair and gesticulated crazily...
ADV : ADV after v , ADV adj
2.
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
ADJ
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Crazy is also a noun.
Outside, mumbling, was one of New York’s ever-present crazies.
= loony
N-COUNT
3.
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
ADJ : v-link ADJ about n
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Crazy is also a combining form.
Every football-crazy schoolboy in Europe dreams of one day being involved in the championships.
COMB in ADJ
4.
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.
ADJ : v-link ADJ about n
5.
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
ADJ : v-link ADJ
6.
You use like crazy to emphasize that something happens to a great degree. ( INFORMAL )
The stuff was selling like crazy...
= like mad
PHRASE : PHR after v [ emphasis ]