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SlangGuy’s Online-Slang-Wör­ter­buch: Englisch-Deutsch
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1 Rw
im Sin­ne von “etw komisch wer­den”, eine “Mei­se ent­wi­ckeln”; auch im Sin­ne von “exzen­trisch”
den Ver­stand ver­lie­ren; ver­rückt / spin­nig / spin­nert wer­den; sich plötz­lich auf­fäl­lig merk­wür­dig verhalten
über­schnap­pen; irre wer­den; einen Hau krie­gen; mackig wer­den; zu spin­nen anfan­gen; [irgend­wie] komisch wer­den; abdre­hen; hohl dre­hen; schrul­lig wer­den; wun­der­lich werden;

 

Ver­glei­che:
squir­rel­ly; nuts: go nuts; dri­ve sb nuts; go cra­zy; blow one’s cork, blow one’s stack, blow one’s top, crack up, flip, flip one’s lid, flip out, flip one’s wig, freak out, go ape, go apes­hit, go around the bend [Brit], go bal­my, go bana­nas, go bar­my, go bats, go bat­ty, go bent, go bon­kers [Brit], go bon­zo, go bug­gy, go bug­house, go bugs, go bug­sy, go cock­ama­mie, go cockey­ed, go crack-brai­ned, go cra­cked, go cra­ckers [Brit], go crack­pot, go crack­pot­ty, go cra­zy as a bedbug, go cra­zy as a coot, go cra­zy as a loon, go cra­zy as cats­hit, go cuckoo, go daffy, go ding­dong, go dippy, go dop­ey, go dot­ty, go dumd­um, go fruit­ca­key, go frui­ty, go fun­ny, go ga-ga, go gon­zo, go Gon­zo City, go goofy, go half-baked, go half the­re, go hay­wire, go kooky, go loco, go loo­ny, go loo­ny-tune, go loo­py, go lun­chy, go men­tal, go mes­hu­gah, go nerts, go nert­sy, go nuts, go nut­so, go nut­sy, go nut­ty, go nut­ty as a fruit­ca­ke, go off, go off one’s chump, go off one’s nut, go off one’s rocker, go off the wall, go off one’s trol­ley, go out of one’s gourd, go out of one’s skull, go out of one’s tree, go pot­ty, go psycho, go que­er, go que­er in the head, go round the bend [Brit], go rumd­um, go scat­ty, go schi­zo, go schi­zy, go screw­ball, go screwy, go squir­rely, go tet­ched, go tet­ched in the head, go up the wall, go wacko, go wacky, go weird, go wild-ass, lose one’s gourd, nut up, schiz out, slip one’s trol­ley, snap, wig out.

 

Quo­tes:

“They run around at night with lea­ther cases full of loa­ded hypo­der­mics. They keep dopes and drunks from going screwy—for a while.”
Ray­mond Chand­ler, Bay City Blues
“My DD-WRT went total­ly screwy so I was forced to do a fac­to­ry reset. Ever­y­thing is now working find bar one thing.”
WWW
“Then I belie­ve my life went total­ly screwy to say the least, lol!”
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© 2013 Bern­hard Schmid
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