go crazy
English
Verb
go crazy (third-person singular simple present goes crazy, present participle going crazy, simple past went crazy, past participle gone crazy)
- To suddenly behave irrationally; to go mad.
- Synonyms: go bonkers, go insane, go nuts, pop one's cork
- 1996, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “The Night Santa Went Crazy”, in Bad Hair Day[1]:
- The night Santa went crazy
The night Kris Kringle went nuts
Now you can't hardly walk around the North Pole
Without steppin' in reindeer guts
- (intransitive, stative, slang) To be excellent.
- Synonym: go hard
- the fit goes crazy ― the outfit is excellent
Translations
go nuts — see go nuts
See also
Further reading
- “go crazy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “go crazy” in Idioms and phrases, TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.