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stir-crazy

stir-crazy adjective: of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.

Adjective

stir-crazy (comparative more stir-crazy, superlative most stir-crazy)

  1. (slang) Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.
  2. (broadly, slang) Restless, uncomfortable, or impatient due to inactivity or confinement.
    • After so many days of rain, the kids started to get a bit stir-crazy.
    • And many, at the same time, are anxious and bored and underemployed and overemployed and stir-crazy and uncertain and lonely and terrified.2020 March 19, Megan Garber, “The Utter Weirdness of Small Talk in a Pandemic”, in The Atlantic

stir-crazy meaning in Bengali

stir-crazy in Bengali

একজন বন্দীর ক্ষেত্রে, অলসতা, অবরুদ্ধ থাকার কারণে অস্থির, অস্বস্তিকর, বা অসহিষ্ণু

Forms of stir-crazy

comparativemore stir-crazy
superlativemost stir-crazy
alternative formstir crazy

Origin of stir-crazy

First attested around 1925, from prison slang stir (“jail or prison”).

Questions about stir-crazy

What does stir-crazy mean?
Stir-crazy means of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.
What is stir-crazy in Bengali?
Stir-crazy in Bengali is একজন বন্দীর ক্ষেত্রে, অলসতা, অবরুদ্ধ থাকার কারণে অস্থির. See Stir-crazy meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is stir-crazy?
Stir-crazy is an adjective.

Words near stir-crazy in the dictionary

  1. stir the embers
  2. stir the pot
  3. stir up
  4. stir up a hornets' nest
  5. stir up the animals
  6. stir-crazy
  7. stir-fried
  8. stir-fried ice cream
  9. stir-fried ice creams
  10. stir-fries
  11. stir-fry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stir-crazy (page history and authors); stir-crazy (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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