Stir-crazy Definition

stûrkrāzē
adjective
Anxious, tense, etc. from long, close confinement, as in prison.
Webster's New World

(idiomatic) Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.

Wiktionary

Origin of Stir-crazy

  • First attested around 1925, from prison slang "stir". See , .

    From Wiktionary

  • From stir

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Stir-crazy Sentence Examples

  • I think you will be ok to let them out now they must be going stir crazy.

  • I took him home a week later, as he was going stir-crazy without human contact.

  • They have been on the road for 40 days, straying into stir-crazy territory.

  • Too many nights cooped up at home will make most Gems a little stir crazy.

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