I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crazy golf
crazy paving
crazy quilt
drive sb crazy/mad/insane spoken ( also drive sb nuts spoken informal ) (= make someone feel very annoyed )
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The continuous noise was driving me crazy.
drive sb crazy/wild (= make someone feel very sexually excited )
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He drives women wild.
stupid/ridiculous/crazy
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The idea sounded crazy to me.
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Camping in the middle of winter was a ridiculous idea!
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He had the crazy idea of hitchhiking around South America.
wild and crazy
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Donny could be wild and crazy .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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It sounds crazy - as crazy as Steve Martin used to be.
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Instead he whined and complained-which over the long run drove me almost as crazy .
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In the book I argue that it's not as crazy as people think it is.
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He was just as crazy as she was if push came to shove.
just
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Punters are just crazy about penny shares, and their blindness, some might argue, is only too readily exploited.
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By the time we got him home he was just crazy as hell.
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Half the time they're just crazy instruments that don't have a name.
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I was just crazy about him.
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It would have been asking for trouble, just crazy , to put Last Resort on the clapperboard.
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And the thing is that it was just crazy !
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You're going to be just crazy about her.
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And it's obvious that he is just crazy about you, honey.
really
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Angie was very loud at the time and being really crazy , so we all got on famously.
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With Minna, we thought things would run smoothly, but then Zbigniew did a really crazy thing.
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Then they got really crazy and they were trying to get David's movie camera and to arrest us all.
so
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Maybe Lou's notion wasn't so crazy after all.
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The one who was so crazy about music.
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I was scared to move, he's obviously so crazy about all that stuff.
■ NOUN
idea
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It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment.
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That very, very crazy idea .
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Maybe she should postpone the whole crazy idea - or better still, drop it altogether.
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If a bold conjecture is falsified, then all that is learnt is that yet another crazy idea has been proved wrong.
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What a crazy idea , picnicking up a mountain at this time of year.
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The Father General and the asteroid and the plane and all these people working on this crazy idea .
man
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A crazy man , some one she had never seen before, took a shot at her from a rooftop.
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The man called after me, as a crazy man would.
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Columbus at Isabella's court is quickly burdened with the reputation of a crazy man .
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The crazy man had 16 points and should have had 10 more.
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The first person to congratulate him was the crazy man .
people
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We just passed them out to crazy people and artistes and people who were always on the scene in New York.
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These sorts of things prompt other crazy people to do crazy things.
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But not, know, crazy like the movies paint crazy people .
thing
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Lushes do crazy things sometimes, don't they?
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And no one argued with any crazy thing she wanted to do for him.
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The next one's a real crazy thing .
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McCarthy, you may recall, was the angelic-looking Brat Packer who did that crazy thing with his eyes.
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I thought at the time it was a crazy thing to agree to and early events seemed to confirm this.
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I was certain that any minute he was going to do some crazy thing to get him up on Disturbed for sure.
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You think about crazy things at a time like that.
things
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Lushes do crazy things sometimes, don't they?
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You think about crazy things at a time like that.
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These sorts of things prompt other crazy people to do crazy things.
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As I watched them, I thought about all the crazy things the people I've grown up with believe and do.
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I thought of two or three things crazy things.
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I had to do some crazy things to get their attention.
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We need conductors who are willing to do wild and crazy things .
woman
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She get up, she get down, she roll, she kick the stomach, like crazy woman .
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Does this make her a selfish, stupid, crazy woman ?
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There was a crazy woman in a cottage.
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She was wearing a long white gown, her hair hanging down, like a crazy woman .
world
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But in the crazy world of intelligence that would not be out of place.
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What sort of a crazy world is it?
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It's a crazy thought in an increasingly crazy world .
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It seemed to me to be a crazy world .
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In an attempt to bring some order to this crazy world , two consortiums have been formed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be one crazy woman/be one interesting job etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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crazy drivers who cause accidents
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Anybody who thinks they're a good team is crazy .
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His friends thought he was crazy when he told them he was going to spend his entire vacation exploring a cave.
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I said I enjoyed doing exams, and she looked at me as if I was crazy !
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Ian's got some crazy plan to drive all the way across Africa.
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It's crazy to have an expensive, elaborate judicial system handling parking tickets and minor traffic violations.
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My dad told me I was crazy to leave my job.
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Put that gun down! Are you totally crazy ?
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The farmers can make more money by not planting crops - it's crazy , isn't it?
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The farmers get more money from the government if they don't plant crops, and I think that's just crazy .
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We're all grown up, but we still act like a couple of crazy kids.
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Whose crazy idea was it to go camping in January?
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You're crazy to lend him all that money - you'll never get it back.
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You're crazy to think of hitch-hiking on your own.
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You agreed to marry him? Are you crazy ?
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You see drivers do some crazy things.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Being wild, crazy and self-empowered became a theme of the group.
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Carmen told Murray, and Murray went crazy .
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Don Jose had gone crazy and been unable to finish this colossal project.
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He spends most of the day in his room writing letters - crazy , mad letters no one understands.
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I know I went crazy at first but I got better.
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Sounds a little crazy , but it was quite a relief at the time to be able to switch my miseries around.
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The biggest influence, believe it or not, was the Weatherman and crazy left-wing guerrilla spirit of the time.
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They probably thought I was crazy all along.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And every day more crazies who debate With phantom enemies on the street.
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I wanted to encourage street crazies and the like to come and work for us.
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So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies.
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Their characters tend to be losers or crazies.
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Their tactics smear environmentalists as extremist crazies.