cockeyed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having both eyes oriented inward, cross-eyed.

2. 2

   Crooked or askew.

   • The Velcro closure of one sneaker had come loose and stuck up like a cockeyed tongue.
3. 3

   Absurd, silly, or stupid

   Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.

   • I'm not going to go along with your cockeyed plot.
   • As time went on, and the desultory rifle-fire rattled among the hills, I began to wonder with increasing scepticism whether anything would ever happen to bring a bit of life, or rather a bit of death, into this cock-eyed war.
   • While he [Bob Dylan] spent six decades singing about heartache, apocalypse and betrayal, a cockeyed humor has always informed his bleak worldview.
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   1. 4

      Drunk.

      • In the private office he said, "Mr. Barrow, I was going to quit." "Don't do that, son! You're the only executive I've got that isn't cockeyed all the time! […]"

The neighborhood

• neighborcockeye