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Etymology
First attested around 1925, from prison slang stir (“jail or prison”).
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Adjective
stir-crazy (comparative more stir-crazy, superlative most stir-crazy)
- (slang) Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.
- (slang, by extension) Restless, uncomfortable, or impatient due to inactivity or confinement.
After so many days of rain, the kids started to get a bit stir-crazy.
2020 March 19, Megan Garber, “The Utter Weirdness of Small Talk in a Pandemic”, in The Atlantic:And many, at the same time, are anxious and bored and underemployed and overemployed and stir-crazy and uncertain and lonely and terrified.
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