bananas

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bəˈnɑː.nəz/

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• (US) enPR: bə-nă'nəz, IPA^(key): /bəˈnæ.nəz/

bananas

1. plural of banana

bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)

1. Crazy, mad, nuts.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane

   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:

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

   • 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times‎:

     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.

   • 2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian‎, UK:

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

• bananapants

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bananas

1. second-person singular past historic of bananer

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banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2

1. banana (fruit)

Probably from English.

bananas (indeclinable)

1. bananas, crazy

Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.

• (bananas, crazy): gal, sprø, kokkeliko, klin kokos, ikke riktig, ikke riktig klok

• gå bananas (“go bananas”)

Probably from English.

bananas (indeclinable?)

1. bananas, crazy

As above.

• gå bananas (“go bananas”)

bananas

1. plural of banana

bananas

1. plural of banana

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈnanas/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /baˈna(ː)naz/

bananas f pl

1. plural of banana