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like crazy
cra·zy C0731500 (krā′zē)adj. cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est 1. a. Mentally deranged.b. Informal Odd or eccentric in behavior.2. Informal Departing from proportion or moderation, especially:a. Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement: The crowd at the game went crazy.b. Immoderately fond; infatuated: was crazy about boys.c. Intensely involved or preoccupied: is crazy about cars and racing.d. Foolish or impractical; senseless: a crazy scheme for making quick money.e. Intensely annoyed or irritated: It makes me crazy when you don't tell me you're going to be late.3. Disorderly or askew: One of the old window shutters hung at a crazy angle.adv. Informal Extremely; very: That restaurant's always crazy busy on weekends, but it's worth the wait.n. pl. cra·zies One who is or appears to be mentally deranged: "To them she is not a brusque crazy, but 'appropriately passionate'" (Mary McGrory).Idiom: like crazy Informal To an exceeding degree: They were running around like crazy.
cra′zi·ly adv.cra′zi·ness n.Thesaurus| Adv. | 1. | like crazy - with great speed or effort or intensity; "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"like hell, like mad, like sin, like the devil, like thundercolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech |
like crazy
like crazyWith great intensity or speed. Ugh, these mosquito bites are itching like crazy! Now that there's the threat of a snowstorm, shoppers have been buying shovels and salt like crazy.See also: crazy, likelike crazy and like madFig. furiously; very much, fast, many, or actively. People are coming in here like crazy. There isn't enough room for them all. We sold ice cream like crazy. It was a very hot day.See also: crazy, likelike crazyAlso, like mad; like nobody's business. With exceeding enthusiasm or speed, without restraint. For example, We shopped like crazy and bought all our furniture in one day, or Once he's out of the town limits he drives like mad, or The choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus like nobody's business. The first terms employ crazy and mad in the sense of "lunatic" as a hyperbole for lack of restraint; the third implies that no business could be conducted in such an extraordinary fashion. The first and third date from the 1920s, the second from the mid-1600s. See also: crazy, likelike ˈcrazy/ˈmad (informal) very fast, hard, etc: running/working like crazySee also: crazy, like, madlike crazy and like mad mod. furiously; very much, fast, many, or actively. Look at those people on the bank. They’re catching fish like mad! I’m running like mad and still can’t catch up. See also: crazy, like like crazy Informal To an exceeding degree: They were running around like crazy.See also: crazy, likelike crazy
Related to like crazy: Stephen Hawking, flippedSynonyms for like crazyadv with great speed or effort or intensitySynonyms- like hell
- like mad
- like sin
- like the devil
- like thunder
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