nuts
[adjective]
Synonyms: insane, batty, cracked, crazy, daft, demented, mad, screwy, unbalanced, wacky

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English Thesaurus: crazy, mad, nuts, loony, insane, ...

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Nuts /nʌts/ trademark
a lad mag (=magazine for young men) published weekly in the UK. It has many pictures of women wearing not much clothing and articles about cars, football, and other things that interest young men.

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I. nuts¹ /nʌts/ adjective [not before noun] informal

1. crazy:
Are you nuts?
I’m going to go nuts (=become crazy) if I don’t find a new job soon.
Turn that radio off. It’s driving me nuts (=annoying me very much).

2. go nuts spoken
a) to become very excited because something good has just happened:
The crowd went nuts after the third touchdown.
b) to become very angry about something:
Mom’s going to go nuts if you don’t clean this mess up.

3. be nuts about/over somebody/something to like someone or something very much:
My wife is nuts about kids.

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II. nuts² interjection American English old-fashioned

1. used to emphasize that something bad or annoying has happened:
Nuts! Now we’re going to be late for the movie.

2. nuts to somebody/something used when you are angrily refusing to listen to someone or do something:
‘Nuts to that,’ he sneered, and left.

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crazy very strange or not sensible – used about people, ideas, and behaviour:
People think I’m crazy when I start talking about ghosts.
It was a crazy thing to do.
mad British English crazy:
Are you mad?
Whose mad idea was that?
At first, everyone thought he was completely mad.
nuts informal (also bonkers British English) [not before noun] crazy:
The whole thing sounds completely nuts.
Have you gone bonkers?
loony informal crazy:
another loony suggestion
The man is totally loony.
insane completely crazy:
I know it sounds insane, but it’s true.

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nuts
v. phr., informal To irritate, frustrate, or tickle someone's fancy so badly that they think they are going insane.
"Stop teasing me, Mary," John said. "You are driving me nuts."
"You are driving me bananas with all your crazy riddles," Steve said.

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