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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bonkers
adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(stark) raving mad/bonkers
▪ All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
stark raving mad/bonkers
▪ All of this doesn't mean he wasn't stark raving mad, and just putting on.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bonkers

"crazy," 1957, British slang, perhaps from earlier naval slang meaning "slightly drunk" (1948), from notion of a thump (" bonk") on the head.

Wiktionary
bonkers

a. (context informal English) irrational, crazy

WordNet
bonkers

adj. informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]

Wikipedia
Bonkers (TV series)

Bonkers is an American animated television series and a spinoff of the earlier series Raw Toonage. It aired from September 4, 1993 to February 23, 1994 in first-run syndication (after a "preview airing" on The Disney Channel in early 1993). The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of The Disney Afternoon. Reruns of the show continued in syndication until 1995. The show was last seen on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in late 2004.

Bonkers (compilation album series)

The Bonkers series was one of the leading happy hardcore compilation series in the UK. The first release was in 1996 on record label React (now Resist), it was available on 2xCD and 2xTC formats. DJs DJ Sharkey and Hixxy were signed by React and the pair released "Bonkers", the first in a series of albums which has become the best-selling hardcore compilation series of all time. The series is currently on its nineteenth release, with Bonkers: The Original Hardcore having been released on 11 May 2009.

Bonkers

Bonkers is an informal British word for "mad" or "crazy". It may also refer to:

Bonkers (2007 TV series)

Bonkers is a UK television series written by Sally Wainwright and starring Liza Tarbuck. It was transmitted on ITV during 2007. It was also released on DVD. This series is available on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK.

In July 2007, the playwright and actress Tricia Walsh-Smith filed a claim in the High Court for breach of copyright, claiming that the pilot episode was copied from her 1987 play, also called "Bonkers".

Bonkers (song)

"Bonkers" is a song by British rapper Dizzee Rascal and American producer Armand Van Helden. It is the first single released from Rascal's fourth studio album, Tongue n' Cheek. Rascal released the track under his own record label, Dirtee Stank Recordings on 17 May 2009 in the United Kingdom, entering at the top of the UK Singles Chart, marking Dizzee's second number one single, third top ten single and eleventh top forty hit on the chart. This was also Van Helden's third number one single after a decade, since " U Don't Know Me". In October 2011, NME placed it at number 59 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Usage examples of "bonkers".

Now I had to go and speak to the most bonkers man in the history of bonkerdom.

I feel so bonkers that at this rate I might be driven to ask advice from my mutti.

There were any number of times that she could have slipped over the edge and gone totally bonkers, and often she wondered if she had.

The place went bonkers and within two and a half seconds were in absolute fits of laughter.

Peanut Pete had been having his problems with the current Bonkers the Bunny.

Two months before, Pete had retired the previous Bonkers to a small but well apportioned hutch out in his garage to live out the rest of his life in comfort.

The new Bonkers had been proving far less cooperative-although experience had taught Pete that it usually took a while for the rabbit to get used to the center stage.

The most irritating habit the bunny had gotten into was gripping the sides of the top hat with his claws when Pete tried to pull him out-a habit which Pete had continually tried to break Bonkers of.

Underhill, and both his friends were bonkers for bathroom gadgets of every kind.

Eventually he turned up a box of mixed Australian wines bought at a place called Booze Bonkers, which was just outside Caen apparently.

Underhill, and both his friends were bonkers for bathroom gadgets of every kind.

The elves could find some way to get this stuff shipped Underhill, and both his friends were bonkers for bathroom gadgets of every kind.

With care, and if nobody goes bonkers, maybe we can stretch it out to thirty-six.

The old lady gradually goes bonkers, shame and guilt preying on her soul, and is locked up in the attic.

Because the Stochaster procedure couldn't be repeatedbut people kept trying it and going bonkers.