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ˈcrackers, pred. a. slang.
[f. cracker n.; cf. cracked ppl. a. 5.]
Crazy, mad; infatuated.
[1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 65 To get the crackers, to go off one's head. Mad.] 1928Daily Express 21 Jan. 2/2, I shall go ‘crackers’ (meaning mad) if anything happens to Ted. 1928E. Wallace Flying Squad xxv. 286 That old boy's crackers if ever there was one! 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock vii. viii. 343 ‘You're crackers,’ Dallow said. 1940in Harrisson & Madge War begins at Home viii. 183 This war is driving me crackers... I'm bored to death. 1941N. Marsh Surf. Lampreys xiv. 207 She's gone completely crackers, it seems. 1943‘E. M. Delafield’ Late & Soon x. 142 He's crackers about Primrose. 1956L. McIntosh Oxford Folly 77 Only the thought of my thirty bob an hour keeps me from going crackers. 1959Daily Tel. 5 Nov. 21/4 Liberal Party is ‘crackers’, says Ld. Morrison of Lambeth. |