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Definition of wacky
wackier
or less commonlywhackier
;wackiest
or less commonlywhackiest
: absurdly or amusingly eccentric or irrational : crazy wacky ideas a wacky comedian
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Examples of wacky in a Sentence
My wacky aunt takes a swim before the lake freezes every winter.
the wacky world of his imagination
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Optical illusions, crazy machines, wacky experiments and more.
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Coincidence, more grist for the global warming mill or merely a climatological rarity from the wonderful world of wild wacky weather?
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Tagged Station North Mini Golf, the course will come complete with hazards, wacky designs and other staples of miniature golf familiar to just about anyone who’s ever vacationed in Ocean City.
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But Nacho Vigalondo’s arch, biting film has a lot more on its mind than mere wacky sci-fi.
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Writer/composer Jacob Surovsky, 19, has created a fun, if uneven, score for this wacky hourlong story of four friends fighting off a monster that haunts the halls of their college dormitory.
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Those wacky flavors extend to the cafe’s ice cream as well.
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Kids will love the bold rhymes and wacky adventures.
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That's just what happened, with LSU scoring two unearned runs in a wacky bottom of the eighth that included Greg Deichmann's go-ahead single.
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Origin and Etymology of wacky
perhaps from English dialect whacky fool
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