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bananas

adjective

Definition of bananas

as in nuts

informal lacking sanity; a state or condition of mental unsoundness If you ask me, that guy is bananas. All the noise drove me bananas.

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The fact anyone tries to use John Brown to take the moral high ground is nuts.

— Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
That same year, the company closed its Emerald nuts manufacturing plant on Crump Road, resulting in 125 layoffs.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of nuts

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Crowder would not have been that mad if the guy had just fessed up and said something normal in his own voice.

— Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026
But, as mad as the idea may have seemed back then, the tradition is still going strong 40 years later with participants coming from around the world to cast their dignity aside — along with a warm robe — and take the plunge into the freezing water.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of mad

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Five people were killed and 25 others were wounded in the attack, which involved ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones, according to the Ukrainian Interior Minister Ivan Vyhivskyi.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2026
Clad with ballistic-resistant plate carriers, the deputies surrounded Martinez’s truck, drawing their guns and forcing him into cuffs.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026

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