nutso

adj

1. (colloquial)Crazy, insane.

   “"You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases."”

   “"It's a bit scary if you have a difficult boss, and it's out-and-out frightening if you have a completely nutso, maladjusted, irrational, or disturbed boss."”

   “"I was wondering if you had any crazy nutso guy stalking you, or something."”

2. (colloquial)Fraught or out of control.

   “How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas.”

   “I put my hand to my chest—my heart was going nutso.”

   “A nutso relationship is no joke, and no baby should be exposed to that.”

   “In 1969, one of the wire spoolers goes nutso, breaks off its mooring, the wire lashing about like a horse's tail trying to chase away a fly.”

3. (colloquial)Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.

   “Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today.”

   “I'm nutso about AnnRice, R.L. Stine, Dean Koontz.”

   “My dad wants to send heirloom tomato seeds there. He's nutso about tomatoes.”

   “Don't get scared when Dani goes nutso over decorations— it's normal and then they change back.”

4. (colloquial)Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.

   “Forget the mechanical, materlial, solid model of communication, bring in the invisible but very real web rings. Internet, hacking and so on; puerile conversations of chat pages, insane obsessions with nutso things.”

   “Trust me, we both can find fringe fanatics to prove the other side is nutso. So let's stop with this stereotypical silliness.”

   “This is a nutso project they've taken on, but it's their nutso project, not ours.”

   “She made us go through this nutso warrior ceremony.”

noun

1. (colloquial, countable)A crazy person; a crackpot or lunatic.

   “You know, some computer nerd rapist killer nutso builds a fantasy around her, crashes a party whereshe's supposed to be, she laughs himoff, says she'd rather be fuckin' her girlfriends than a pimply little freak--”

   “Sadly, at the end of his life, Luther became somewhat of a nutso.”

   “Why give even one minute to this head-meddling nutso?”

2. (colloquial, uncountable)Craziness; insanity.

   “I wrote a letter to the Guild Newsletter apologizing for having disrupted the show, pleading temporary nutso.”

   “I knew she was a crazy bitch, but this is a whole new level of nutso.”

adv

1. (colloquial)Madly; extremely or obsessively.

   “I'm completely, utterly, nutso in love with that man!”

2. (colloquial)In a crazy manner.

   “I'm working at the ink-jet machine running a job...then I hear a weird noise I but I can't really tell what it is over the sound of the machine right.. .then I think I hear a whimper...all of a sudden my step mom bursts out from her office all nutso saying..."where is your father, where is your father"”

   “In there was Captain Ed Cutler, whom every man and woman in Maggie's old command had once seen run nutso in Valhalla.”