loopy
pronunciation
How to pronounce loopy in British English:
UK [ˈlu:pi]
How to pronounce loopy in American English:
US [ˈlupi]
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- Adjective:
- informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
Word Origin
- loopy (adj.)
- "full of loops," 1856, from loop + -y (2). Slang sense "crazy" is attested from 1923. Earlier figurative sense was "cunning, deceitful" (by 1825).
Example
- 1. All it would do was make me tired and loopy .
- 2. His small , neat handwriting next to my loopy , heavy scrawl .
- 3. He had one of the great loopy stares in movie history , courtesy of a glass eye that was the trophy from a childhood disease .
- 4. You feeling loopy ? You look loopy .
- 5. He 'll go loopy when he sees that !