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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Adjective
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Like, to have Hughie kick A-Train’s head off would’ve been nuts.—
Derek Lawrence,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026 -
And the producers are telling me that the audiences are going nuts.—
Yamillah Hurtado,
PEOPLE,
8 Apr. 2026
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With the greatest opening day crowd in the history of Atlanta and the Southern league cheering in a mad, thunderous crescendo, the Atlanta Crackers reached something approaching an apogee of playing perfection yesterday to turn back the Knoxville Smokies, 9 to 0.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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The president of the United States is stark-raving mad.—
Robert B. Reich,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026
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Categorizing the plunge pool as TIO for something like a charity scramble or regular public play would be one thing, but to do so in a major championship with a purse of $9 million seems fundamentally wrong and also insane.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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The reception to your performance in the Rusical was insane.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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Ukraine’s Air Defense said Russia launched in excess of 40 ballistic and cruise missiles as well as more than 650 drones of various types, calling it one of the toughest attacks of the year to date.—
Jonathan Tirone,
Bloomberg,
16 Apr. 2026
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And that Iran itself is a dangerous actor that destabilizes the Middle East and talks about threatening Israel and is definitely developing nuclear power beyond civilian use at some level and has a very advanced ballistic-missile program.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 Apr. 2026
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“Bananas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bananas. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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