nutzo

Adjective

nutso (comparative more nutso, superlative most nutso)

1. (colloquial) Crazy, insane.
   • "You wanted a report, so here's a full report: crazy, nutso, raisins short of a fruitcake, rubber walls, screaming-mad basket-cases."2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN
2. (colloquial) Fraught or out of control.
   • How being taught to not cut corners, even in a nutso emergency room shift, meant I checked all regions in Mary below the waist and didn't just tell her I thought it was probably gas.2005, Phyllis Hollenbeck, Sacred Trust: The Ten Rules of Life, Death, and Medicine, →ISBN, page 40
3. (colloquial) Obsessed; overly enthusiastic.
   • Even the most nutso fisherman would think twice about going out on the lake today.2001, Kathryn North, Proud Mari, →ISBN, page 7
4. (colloquial) Ridiculous; unbelievable or silly.
   • Forget the mechanical, materlial, solid model of communication, bring in the invisible but very real web rings. Internet, hacking and so on; puerile conversations of chat pages, insane obsessions with nutso things.2000, Finola Moorhead, Darkness More Visible, →ISBN, page 133

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