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Dictionary definition of “cray-cray”

cray-cray

adj. crazy. Subjects: ,
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Citations: 2002 [AJ'z chick (Vanessa)] ThE LiFe oF a MaKeUp JuNkIe (May 5): I woke up this morning (Thanks God!) and heard my dad talking about stuff that I really didn’t want to hear. haha. He’s so cray cray. 2002 [Brent Knowles (madmoneyez)] Brent Knowles’ Journal (Edmonds, Wash.) (Sept. 4) “Ego Munching”: School starts tomorrow, oh shit thats gunna be sooooo CRAY CRAY@!!!!!! 2003 [Mistah Kurtz] LiveJournal for Mistah Kurtz (Jan. 3) “Put on your red shoes and dance the blues”: We sparked up a J and got cray-cray. 2005 Ian Cropp Vail Daily (Colo.) (Dec. 22) “Trading a pair of skis for a board”: While shredding like cray-cray on the Red Buffalo and Centennial runs, I began to note how boarding was quite different from skiing. 2006 Garth Johnson Gothamist (New York City) (Apr. 16) “Agape at Jared Paul Stern’s Gawker”: When we got back a few hours later those two lines were gone, and Gawker went a little cray-cray.
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