stir-crazy

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(informal, especially AmE) showing signs of mental illness because of being kept in prison

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

stir-crazyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary stir-crazyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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In this entry, stir-crazy is tagged as adjective.

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