nutso

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Crazy, insane.

   • "You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases."
   • "It's a bit scary if you have a difficult boss, and it's out-and-out frightening if you have a completely nutso, maladjusted, irrational, or disturbed boss."
   • "I was wondering if you had any crazy nutso guy stalking you, or something."
2. 2

   Fraught or out of control.

   • 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.
   • I put my hand to my chest—my heart was going nutso.
   • A nutso relationship is no joke, and no baby should be exposed to that.
3. 3

   Obsessed

   Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.

   • Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today.
   • I'm nutso about AnnRice, R.L. Stine, Dean Koontz.
   • My dad wants to send heirloom tomato seeds there. He's nutso about tomatoes.
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   1. 4

      Ridiculous

      Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.

      • 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.
      • Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness.
      • This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours.
   2. 5

      A crazy person

      A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic.

      • 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--
      • Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso.
      • Why give even one minute to this head-meddling nutso?
   3. 6

      Craziness

      Craziness; insanity.

      • I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso.
      • I knew she was a crazy bitch, but this is a whole new level of nutso.
   4. 7

      Madly

      Madly; extremely or obsessively.

      • I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!
   5. 8

      In a crazy manner.

      • In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.

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