girl/boy crazy
idiom
: 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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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.
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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
My makeup artistry journey began from me being boy crazy.
—Ariel Baker, Essence, 9 Aug. 2021
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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
My makeup artistry journey began from me being boy crazy.
—Ariel Baker, Essence, 9 Aug. 2021
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“Girl/boy crazy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/girl%2Fboy%20crazy. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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