bonkers
pronunciation
How to pronounce bonkers in British English:
UK [ˈbɒŋkəz]
How to pronounce bonkers in American English:
US [ˈbɑŋkərz]
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- Adjective:
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Word Origin
- bonkers (adj.)
- "crazy," 1957, British slang, perhaps from earlier naval slang meaning "slightly drunk" (1948), from notion of a thump ("bonk") on the head.
Example
- 1. At first sight this seems bonkers .
- 2. Like washington 's advance , the nasdaq bid appears strategically bonkers compared with the deutsche brse deal .
- 3. He suggests that the principle of combining art award and art auction is " bonkers " and constitutes " a patchwork quilt " of different aims .
- 4. That thought is not entirely bonkers . The consensus among physicists is that particles began massless and got their mass subsequently from something known as the higgs field-the search for which was one reason for building the large hadron collider , a huge and powerful particle accelerator located near geneva .