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Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.

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  1. a. Characterized by weakness or feebleness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe.
  2. a. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged.
  3. a. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager.
  4. adj. affected with madness or insanity
  5. adj. foolish; totally unsound
  6. adj. possessed by inordinate excitement
  7. adj. bizarre or fantastic
  8. adj. intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with
  9. n. someone deranged and possibly dangerous
  10. 1. Characterized by weakness or feeblness; decrepit; broken; falling to decay; shaky; unsafe. Piles of mean andcrazy houses. Macualay. One of great riches, but a crazy constitution. Addison. They . . . got a crazy boat to carry them to the island. Jeffrey. 2. Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras. 3. Inordinately desirous; foolishly eager. [Colloq.] The girls were crazy to be introduced to him. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk or other material of various sizes, shapes, and colors, fancifully stitched together without definite plan or arrangement.
  11. j:98/n:2 n. someone deranged and possibly dangerous s. foolish; totally unsound s. possessed by inordinate excitement s. bizarre or fantastic