What's in a Word?

I've recently discovered that crazy comes in all shapes and sizes. The good, the bad, and the downright ugly. So I thought it might be nice if we actually defined crazy today. I know I can apply just about every one of these definitions to things going on in my life these days. Can you?

Crazy

krey-zee] adjective, -zi·er, -zi·est, noun, plural -zies.

–adjective

1. mentally deranged; demented; insane.

2. senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.

3. Informal. intensely enthusiastic; passionately excited: crazy about baseball.

4. Informal. very enamored or infatuated (usually followed by about ): He was crazy about her.

5. Informal. intensely anxious or eager; impatient: I'm crazy to try those new skis.

6. Informal. unusual; bizarre; singular: She always wears a crazy hat.

7. Slang. wonderful; excellent; perfect: That's crazy, man, crazy.

8. likely to break or fall to pieces.

9. weak, infirm, or sickly.

10. having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.: a crazy reel that spins in either direction.

–noun

11. Slang. an unpredictable, nonconforming person; oddball: a house full of crazies who wear weird clothes and come in at all hours.

12. the crazies, Slang . a sense of extreme unease, nervousness, or panic; extreme jitters: The crew was starting to get the crazies from being cooped up below decks for so long.

—Idiom

13. like crazy,

a. Slang. with great enthusiasm or energy; to an extreme: We shopped like crazy and bought all our Christmas gifts in one afternoon.

b. with great speed or recklessness: He drives like crazy once he's out on the highway.