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Mad Max

Mad Max adjective: suggesting an anarchic, chaotic, or dystopian world or environment.

Adjective

Mad Max (comparative more Mad Max, superlative most Mad Max)

  1. (figuratively, informal) Suggesting an anarchic, chaotic, or dystopian world or environment.
    • It is of course my wish to return alive to Norway ... I feel that some of the more experienced veterans in the unit have become a bit more 'Mad Max' than others.2009, B. Maeland, P. Brunstad, Enduring Military Boredom, From 1750 to the Present, page 94

Forms of Mad Max

comparativemore Mad Max
superlativemost Mad Max

Origin of Mad Max

After the Mad Max film franchise.

Questions about Mad Max

What does Mad Max mean?
Mad Max means suggesting an anarchic, chaotic, or dystopian world or environment.
What part of speech is Mad Max?
Mad Max is an adjective.

Words near Mad Max in the dictionary

  1. mad lad
  2. mad lads
  3. Mad Lib
  4. Mad Libs
  5. mad man
  6. Mad Max
  7. mad men
  8. mad minute
  9. mad minutes
  10. mad money
  11. mad on

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