girl/boy crazy

phrase

: very interested in girls/boys
teenagers who are girl/boy crazy
He's girl crazy and can't keep his mind on his schoolwork.

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She was berated for being too boy crazy in her teens, then for being too single in her 30s. — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025 Theo wants to impress a date—the kid is consistently girl crazy, another reason to relate—and enlists his sister Denise, played by Lisa Bonet, to make for him a knockoff of a shirt by a popular designer of the day, Gordon Gartrelle. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 27 July 2025 Her mom has trouble with intimate relationships and is sort of like a boy crazy mom, and Taylor's the one that's seeing the manifestation of that, and essentially comforting her mother and trying to help her. — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 May 2025 His brother Adam also remembered fondly how boy crazy Bragman could be, even as a college freshman at the University of Michigan. — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 5 Mar. 2023

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“Girl/boy crazy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/girl%2Fboy%20crazy. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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