bananas

adjective

Definition of bananasnext
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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  1. nuts
  2. mad
  3. insane
  4. ballistic
Adjective
  • How nuts and whole grains add up Peanuts lead the nut category, according to Lindsey DeSoto, RD, with Health.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 9, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 2026
  • Eventually, what looks to be a pink couch gets loaded out of a truck and everyone goes nuts.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 4 July 2026
Definition of nuts
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  • But Carveout 2160 is a new IP in snowboarding, which was responsible for the fastest and maddest games of the era.
    — Matt Gardner, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • Tamra is right; Shannon and some of the other cast are looking for things to get mad about, taking tiny things and blowing them up.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 July 2026
Definition of mad
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  • To see that journey completely through to the end has been insane.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 22 July 2026
  • The stupidity and greed of the status quo threatens to drive her insane.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 July 2026
Definition of insane
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  • The sheriff's office said ballistic testing performed with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives later produced forensic evidence linking the two murders.
    — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
  • The Space Development Agency’s primary mission has been to develop a constellation of several hundred missile warning and data relay satellites in low-Earth orbit designed to detect, track, and target ballistic and hypersonic missiles.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
Definition of ballistic
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