crazypants
A playfully exaggerated term for someone who is acting wildly irrational, unpredictably unhinged, or just spectacularly eccentric — either as a noun (that person is a total crazypants) or as an adjective (that idea is completely crazypants).
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That would require the media to actually do their job and they are more concerned about having access to the daily crazypants show
"having a crazypants president is not sustainable. alarm bells should be going off in Congress and in every newsroom in America right now — and yet, our institutions have one again failed us, and have normalized havin…
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A playfully exaggerated term for someone who is acting wildly irrational, unpredictably unhinged, or just spectacularly eccentric — either as a noun (that person is a total crazypants) or as an adjective (that idea is completely crazypants). The '-pants' suffix is a classic English comedy construction that softens and cartoonifies whatever word it's attached to, making the insult more affectionate than hostile. You'd call someone a crazypants with a grin, not a grimace. Common in informal American speech and online culture.
My cat decided it was the perfect time to sprint laps at 3 AM — absolute crazypants behavior.
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(slang) A crazy person.
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(slang) Crazy.
“That would require the media to actually do their job and they are more concerned about having access to the daily crazypants show”
“"having a crazypants president is not sustainable. alarm bells should be going off in Congress and in every newsroom in America right now — and yet, our institutions have one again failed us, and have normalized having a deranged and impaired president." Jeff Tiedrich”
“That would require the media to actually do their job and they are more concerned about having access to the daily crazypants show”
— Bluesky· May 2026“"having a crazypants president is not sustainable. alarm bells should be going off in Congress and in every newsroom in America right now — and yet, our institutions have one again failed us, and have normalized having a deranged and impaired president." Jeff Tiedrich”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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