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bananas

nounadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bəˈnɑː.nəz//
  • United States//bəˈnæ.nəz//

Crazy, mad, nuts.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of bananaplural of banana

adjective

  1. 1

    Crazy, mad, nuts.

    I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.

    The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.

    “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.

Forms

comparative
more bananas
superlative
most bananas
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).