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banoodles

banoodles adjective: crazy.

Adjective

banoodles (comparative more banoodles, superlative most banoodles)

  1. (humorous, slang) Crazy.
    • There is a genuine fondness among others for [Jeff] Van Gundy. “He’s crazy, intense,” guard Chris Childs said, “not bananas, but ba[-]noodles. More like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But I love him. I have respect for him.”1999 May 30, Ira Winderman, “Talk is cheap, unless it’s the Heat talking”, in Sun-Sentinel, page 9C
    • Yeah . . . but that was all that Korean shit with the kicks, oh shit, that shit was bananas. Banoodles son.2004, Jee Kim, “Bi-bim-bap”, in Emily Bernard, editor, Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 22

Examples of banoodles in a sentence

  • It’s banoodles how much can change in a few months.2008, Deja King, The Bitch Is Back, Columbus, Ohio: Triple Crown Publications, →ISBN, page 80:
  • The Sex And The City launch last weekend was banoodles.2008 June 4, Andrea Woo, “Sex And The City’s big night”, in Metro, Vancouver, B.C.: Metro International, page 25, column 1:
  • When we finally arrive at one a.m., the line is banoodles, and it's a hundred dollars for men to get in.2011, Demetria L. Lucas, A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-To Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 132:
  • Love you so so much and missed you like banoodles.2017 October 14, Reggee Bonoan, quoting Billy Crawford’s Instagram post, “Ria at Coleen, isang linggong bonding sa New York”, in Balita:

Forms of banoodles

comparativemore banoodles
superlativemost banoodles

Origin of banoodles

Blend of bananas (“crazy, nuts”) + noodles.

Questions about banoodles

What does banoodles mean?
Banoodles means crazy.
How do you use banoodles in a sentence?
It’s banoodles how much can change in a few months.
What part of speech is banoodles?
Banoodles is an adjective.

Words near banoodles in the dictionary

  1. banoffee pies
  2. banoffi
  3. banoffi pie
  4. banoffi pies
  5. Banogbog
  6. banoodles
  7. Banoon
  8. Banora Point
  9. Banos
  10. banovina
  11. banovinas

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