Crossword clues for craze
craze
- Dernier cri
- What's hot
- Beanie Babies, once
- Beanie Babies, e.g
- The latest thing
- Short-lived obsession
- Pokémon Go, e.g
- Major fad
- Hot item
- Gotta-have-it phenomenon
- Temporary thing
- Pop-culture phenomenon
- It's not hot for long
- It doesn't last
- Flavor of the month, so to speak
- Fidget spinners, e.g
- Short-lived fad
- Pop-culture obsession
- It doesn't last long
- Far-flung fad
- Crosswords, in the 1920s
- Viral activity
- Short-lived preoccupation
- Short-lived phenomenon
- It'll blow over soon
- Hottest fashion
- Hot new thing
- Hairpin stealing, circa 1885
- Fast-fading fad
- Crosswords, once
- Briefly hot item
- "Flavor of the month"
- ''The Twist'' was one
- Pet rocks, once
- Make nuts
- Mania
- Fad
- Many a new dance
- Beanie Babies, e.g.
- The twist, once
- Hot trend
- The Hula Hoop, once
- Slinkys or Magic 8 Balls, once
- CB radios, once
- Charleston or lindy, once
- Hula hoops in the 1950s, e.g.
- It's temporarily hot
- PokГ©mon Go, e.g.
- Crosswords in 1924-25, e.g.
- It's hot for a while
- Rage
- An interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- State of violent mental agitation
- Hula hoops, once
- Hula hoops or pet rocks
- Vogue
- Rubik cube or pet rock, e.g.
- Crack in glaze or enamel
- Caught London gangsters making crack
- Short-lived enthusiasm
- Short-lived fashion
- Hula hoops in the 1950s, e.g
- It's a fashion to speak of criminals
- The latest thing notorious 16 announced
- Latest thing
- It's all the rage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Craze \Craze\, v. i.
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To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
She would weep and he would craze.
--Keats. To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
Craze \Craze\, n.
Craziness; insanity.
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A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly.
--Prof. Wilson. -
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; a fad; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the [ae]sthetic craze.
Various crazes concerning health and disease.
--W. Pater. (Ceramics) A crack in the glaze or enamel such as is caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat.
Craze \Craze\ (kr[=a]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crazed (kr[=a]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Crazing.] [OE. crasen to break, fr. Scand., perh. through OF.; cf. Sw. krasa to crackle, sl[*a] i kras, to break to pieces, F. ['e]craser to crush, fr. the Scand. Cf. Crash.]
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To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, And craze their chariot wheels.
--Milton. -
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. [Obs.]
Till length of years, And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
--Milton. -
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
Any man . . . that is crazed and out of his wits.
--Tilloston.Grief hath crazed my wits.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "break down in health," from craze (v.) in its Middle English sense; this led to a noun sense of "mental breakdown," and by 1813 to the extension to "mania, fad," or, as The Century Dictionary (1902) defines it, "An unreasoning or capricious liking or affectation of liking, more or less sudden and temporary, and usually shared by a number of persons, especially in society, for something particular, uncommon, peculiar, or curious ...."
late 14c., crasen, craisen "to shatter, crush, break to pieces," probably Germanic and perhaps ultimately from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse *krasa "shatter"), but entering English via an Old French crasir (compare Modern French écraser). Original sense preserved in crazy quilt pattern and in reference to cracking in pottery glazing (1815). Mental sense (by 1620s) perhaps comes via transferred sense of "be diseased or deformed" (mid-15c.), or it might be an image. Related: Crazed; crazing.\n\n... there is little assurance in reconciled enemies: whose affections (for the most part) are like unto Glasse; which being once cracked, can neuer be made otherwise then crazed and vnsound.
[John Hayward, "The Life and Raigne of King Henrie the IIII," 1599]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Craziness; insanity. 2 A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. 3 A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze. 4 (cx ceramics English) A crack in the glaze or enamel caused by exposure of the pottery to great or irregular heat. vb. 1 To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. 2 To derange the intellect of; to render insane. 3 To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. 4 (context transitive intransitive archaic English) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase. 5 (context transitive intransitive English) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
WordNet
n. an interest followed with exaggerated zeal; "he always follows the latest fads"; "it was all the rage that season" [syn: fad, furor, furore, cult, rage]
state of violent mental agitation [syn: delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria]
a fine crack in a glaze or other surface
v. cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind [syn: madden]
develop a fine network of cracks; "Crazed ceramics"
Wikipedia
Craze is a 1974 film directed by Freddie Francis. It stars Jack Palance as a psychotic antiques dealer who sacrifices women to the statue of an African god.
Usage examples of "craze".
Bad stories came down about Blackfeet and Cree, Atsina and Crow and Nakodabi Assiniboin, becoming crazed on spirit water and hurting or killing each other.
It had changed into a mad, crazed thing no more like a bluetick hound than a butterfly was like a scorpion.
He had been too weak to carry them out for burial, and everyone else still alive in the town was too crazed or sick to help him, so he had just gotten up, covered each molded corpse with a buffalo robe, and left them inside, and had shut up the lodge and blocked the door with a bullboat to keep dogs from getting in.
One of those Dadaists or Cubists or Surrealists, whatever they were called, whose crazed paintings, sculptures, and writings revealed that their makers were rotten with sin and syphilis.
Presidente Viera was assassinated during her third term in office by a crazed divisionist zealot.
Everybody knows all about the Pythagorean craze, its rise in Boston, its rapid spread, and its subsequent consolidation with mental and Christian science, theosophy, hypnotism, the Salvation Army, the Shakers, the Dunkards, and the mind-cure cult, upon a business basis.
Science has its fads and crazes, like anything else: string theory, eugenics, mesmerism.
We need go back no further than a generation to find abundant examples of eccentricities of style and expression, of crazes over some author or some book, as unaccountable on principles of art as many of the fashions in social life.
At the height of the Fuzzy craze, the three of them had kidnapped some Fuzzies and trained them to get into the Company gem vault through the ventilation system.
DOOM PATROL deploys against them its vision of crazed flux in a decentered, goofily hyperreal world.
Hunter slammed a fist into the hides he sat on, a crazed look welling in his eyes.
Crazed by thirst after their long dusty dig down from the summit, the Hyksos gang and the tavern owner threw themselves into the sluggish stream to drink their fill and then some.
It was hard, even for imps crazed with the black drink, to throw oneself within the range of that dragonsword, that shining ribbon of lethal steel.
Crazed mobs rioted up and down the street, and swept right past us without even slowing.
Dita had studied the work of the Go-captains and she knew well enough that if the paleocortex was lost the personality became intellectually sane, but emotionally crazed.