Citations:cray-cray

Adjective: "(slang) crazy"

 * 2009, Barnaby Monk, "Get Your Dance Duds Out", San Diego Reader, 11 March 2009:
 * “Let’s get cray-cray!” Soda Bar’s gonna fill some fine, fun bills this week.
 * 2011, Jessica Verday, The Hidden, Simon Pulse (2011), ISBN 9781416978985, page 90:
 * “Lewis again. The boy cannot get over our breakup. He's like this little puppy dog that follows me around, and it's just driving me cray-cray.”
 * 2011, John Ashley Wright, "Latest trend in lazy wear", Tulsa World, 1 November 2011:
 * Surely I misunderstood that part of the commercial because no manufacturer in his or her right mind would give away $20 worth of products when you're only spending $19.95 plus shipping and handling for something else that's worth at least a fraction of that amount, right? That's cray-cray, y'all.
 * 2012, Shannon O'Malley, Apocalypse Cakes: Recipes for the End, Running Press (2012), ISBN 9780762446711, page 71:
 * Depending on what sort of person you are, you can embrace the Arabic word “jihad” (“struggle”) to mean different things. For some, it's a word that denotes a personal striving within Islamic practice. Others, who are cray-cray, use it as an umbrella term and justification for car bombings and other excitements sure to stave off Western influences such as flavored condoms and women's suffrage.
 * 2012, Madeleine Roux, Sadie Walker Is Stranded, St. Martin's Griffin (2012), ISBN 9780312658915, page 230:
 * “And I thought he was stupid or making fun of me, I don't know, I got fucked up over the girls. We were all a little cray-cray.”
 * 2012, Kia Kokalitcheva, "If the glove doesn’t fit…", The Daily Californian (University of California, Berkeley), 5 March 2012:
 * Let me tell you something: There is such a thing as “too big.” Now, I’m sure some of you ladies are thinking that I’ve gone cray-cray and that there is nothing you would want more than a hunky dude with a giant friend down there.
 * 2012, Monica Lewis, "Sass in the City: Brides or diet-crazy boneheads?", GoErie.com, 26 April 2012:
 * I'm obviously not a guy, but if I were and my fiancee was getting her nutrition from a feeding tube to lose weight, I'd be looking to score a Matrimonial Get Out of Jail free card because my intended was five kinds of cray-cray.
 * 2012, "Hiddleston: There's hope for Loki", Belfast Telegraph, 27 April 2012:
 * "What fascinates me about Loki is that there is a glimmer of redemption in him somewhere, that he's not cray-cray (crazy).
 * 2012, Lindsey Kelk, I Heart London, Harper (2012), ISBN 9780007383733, unnumbered page:
 * I took that as his very, very diplomatic way of saying that Cici was a batshit, cray-cray mental who should be locked up,
 * 2012, "Gossip Goat", The Globe (International House, University of Melbourne), Volume 11, Issue 2, 16 October 2012, page 6:
 * And since there's been so much of my favourite feed splashing around IH lately, with some cray-cray parties, and goony days, the collective gossipy nature of this entire college has resurrected me from my retirement pasture.
 * 2013, Sophie Bell, The Ultra Violets, Razorbill (2013), ISBN 9781101604182, unnumbered page:
 * “This is soooo cray-cray,” Cheri said as she sat down next to Opal on the park bench.
 * 2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply, Signet Eclipse (2013), ISBN 9781101599570, unnumbered page:
 * “Are you high?” asked Dove suspiciously. She squinted at Patsy. “Because that's cray-cray.”
 * 2013, Absolutely, April 2013, page 7:
 * The fashion world has gone cray-cray for the Orient.
 * 2013, Krystal Sutherland, "It's The Thought That Counts", Blitz (University of New South Wales), Session 1, Week 9, page 17, c. May 2013:
 * It's been a rough downhill slide for Nadya Suleman ever since she spawned a litter of octuplets in 2009, increasing her previously cray-cray big brood of brats to 14.