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going crazy

going crazy is the present participle and gerund of go crazy.

Meaning of go crazy

Verb

go crazy (third-person singular simple present goes crazy, present participle going crazy, simple past went crazy, past participle gone crazy)

  1. To suddenly behave irrationally; to go mad.
    • The night Santa went crazy
      The night Kris Kringle went nuts
      Now you can't hardly walk around the North Pole
      Without steppin' in reindeer guts1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day
  2. (intransitive, slang, stative) To be excellent.
    • the fit goes crazy
    Synonyms:
    go hard

Questions about going crazy

What is going crazy the present participle and gerund of?
Going crazy is the present participle and gerund of go crazy.

Words near going crazy in the dictionary

  1. going cheap
  2. going commando
  3. going concern
  4. going concerns
  5. going country
  6. going crazy
  7. going cunch
  8. going dark
  9. going deep
  10. going down
  11. going down fighting

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