Doolally-tap Definition
noun
Camp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity.
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Origin of Doolally-tap
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From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit [script?] (tapa, “heat; torment”)).According to one theory, to go doolally tap was to go crazy waiting.
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