Citations:cray-cray

English citations of cray-cray

Adjective: "(slang) crazy"

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• 2009, Barnaby Monk, "Get Your Dance Duds Out", San Diego Reader, 11 March 2009:

  “Let’s get cray-cray!” Soda Bar’s gonna fill some fine, fun bills this week.

• 2011, Jessica Verday, The Hidden, Simon Pulse (2011), →ISBN, page 90:

  “Lewis again. The boy cannot get over our breakup. He's like this little puppy dog that follows me around, and it's just driving me cray-cray.”

• 2011, John Ashley Wright, "Latest trend in lazy wear", Tulsa World, 1 November 2011:

  Surely I misunderstood that part of the commercial because no manufacturer in his or her right mind would give away $20 worth of products when you're only spending $19.95 plus shipping and handling for something else that's worth at least a fraction of that amount, right? That's cray-cray, y'all.

• 2012, Shannon O'Malley, Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes for the End, Running Press (2012), →ISBN, page 71:

  Depending on what sort of person you are, you can embrace the Arabic word “jihad” (“struggle”) to mean different things. For some, it's a word that denotes a personal striving within Islamic practice. Others, who are cray-cray, use it as an umbrella term and justification for car bombings and other excitements sure to stave off Western influences such as flavored condoms and women's suffrage.

• 2012, Madeleine Roux, Sadie Walker Is Stranded, St. Martin's Griffin (2012), →ISBN, page 230:

  “And I thought he was stupid or making fun of me, I don't know, I got fucked up over the girls. We were all a little cray-cray.”

• 2012, Kia Kokalitcheva, "If the glove doesn’t fit…", The Daily Californian (University of California, Berkeley), 5 March 2012:

  Let me tell you something: There is such a thing as “too big.” Now, I’m sure some of you ladies are thinking that I’ve gone cray-cray and that there is nothing you would want more than a hunky dude with a giant friend down there.

• 2012, Monica Lewis, "Sass in the City: Brides or diet-crazy boneheads?", GoErie.com, 26 April 2012:

  I'm obviously not a guy, but if I were and my fiancee was getting her nutrition from a feeding tube to lose weight, I'd be looking to score a Matrimonial Get Out of Jail free card because my intended was five kinds of cray-cray.

• 2012, "Hiddleston: There's hope for Loki", Belfast Telegraph, 27 April 2012:

  "What fascinates me about Loki is that there is a glimmer of redemption in him somewhere, that he's not cray-cray (crazy). […]

• 2012, Lindsey Kelk, I Heart London, Harper (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  I took that as his very, very diplomatic way of saying that Cici was a batshit, cray-cray mental who should be locked up, […]

• 2012, "Gossip Goat", The Globe (International House, University of Melbourne), Volume 11, Issue 2, 16 October 2012, page 6:

  And since there's been so much of my favourite feed splashing around IH lately, with some cray-cray parties, and goony days, the collective gossipy nature of this entire college has resurrected me from my retirement pasture.

• 2013, Sophie Bell, The Ultra Violets, Razorbill (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “This is soooo cray-cray,” Cheri said as she sat down next to Opal on the park bench.

• 2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply, Signet Eclipse (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “Are you high?” asked Dove suspiciously. She squinted at Patsy. “Because that's cray-cray.”

• 2013, Absolutely, April 2013, page 7:

  The fashion world has gone cray-cray for the Orient.

• 2013, Krystal Sutherland, "It's The Thought That Counts", Blitz (University of New South Wales), Session 1, Week 9, page 17, c. May 2013:

  It's been a rough downhill slide for Nadya Suleman ever since she spawned a litter of octuplets in 2009, increasing her previously cray-cray big brood of brats to 14.