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English
Etymology
From crazy by shortening and reduplication.
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Adjective
cray-cray (comparative more cray-cray, superlative most cray-cray)
- (slang) Crazy.
2011, Jessica Verday, The Hidden, Simon Pulse, published 2011, →ISBN, 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.”
2012 April 27, “Hiddleston: There's hope for Loki”, in Belfast Telegraph:"What fascinates me about Loki is that there is a glimmer of redemption in him somewhere, that he's not cray-cray (crazy). […]
2013, Michele Bardsley, Only Lycans Need Apply, Signet Eclipse, published 2013, →ISBN:“Are you high?” asked Dove suspiciously. She squinted at Patsy. “Because that's cray-cray.”
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