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looney tunes

looney tunes adjective: loony, crazy, insane.

Adjective (1)

looney tunes (comparative more looney tunes, superlative most looney tunes)

  1. (colloquial, humorous) Loony, crazy, insane.
    • He'd look at me sort of sideways and say all the time, you're losing it, Amy, honey, you are going looney tunes.1988, Denise Ohio, The Finer Grain, Naiad Press, →ISBN, page 23
    • I thought him crazy. / Pure looney tunes.2002, Tony Spivey, Covered Ground, Iriswhite Publishing, →ISBN, page 12

Adjective (2) capitalized: Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes (comparative more Looney Tunes, superlative most Looney Tunes)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of looney tunes.
    • Although almost certainly suffering from manic states and perhaps from a form of manic-depressive illness, Dad could not be effectively diagnosed. He was what people might describe as either crazy as a bedbug, totally Looney Tunes, three sandwiches shy of a picnic, or an abusive manipulator.1998, Tonya Flynt-Vega, Ted Schwarz, Hustled: my journey from fear to faith, page 227

Forms of looney tunes

comparativemore looney tunes
superlativemost looney tunes
alternative formLooney Tunes
comparativemore Looney Tunes
superlativemost Looney Tunes

Origin of looney tunes

Extension of loony by reference to the cartoon series Looney Tunes.

Words formed from looney tunes

Questions about looney tunes

What does looney tunes mean?
Looney tunes means loony, crazy, insane.
What part of speech is looney tunes?
Looney tunes is an adjective.

Words near looney tunes in the dictionary

  1. looney
  2. looney bin
  3. looney bins
  4. looney toon
  5. looney toons
  6. looney tunes
  7. looney-tunes
  8. looneys
  9. Looneyville
  10. loong
  11. Loongana

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Adapted from Wiktionary: looney tunes (page history and authors); Looney Tunes (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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