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Nutso
Meaning
- A quick, informal way to describe someone or something that is crazy, erratic, or completely irrational.
Casual, hyperbolic
Used in a sentence
- The traffic on the highway was absolutely nutso today.
- Do not listen to him, he is acting completely nutso right now.
- I had to pull an all-nighter for this project, it was nutso.
The backstory
This is a derivative of the word nuts, which has been used as a slang term for insanity since the early twentieth century. The o ending is a common playful suffix in American slang.
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