When someone goes fully unhinged with unexpected elite performance, channeling the spirit of Jeremy Lin's 2012 Knicks run.
When someone goes fully unhinged with unexpected elite performance, channeling the spirit of Jeremy Lin's 2012 Knicks run. Usually means an underestimated player or person is absolutely cooking right now.
She's in linsanity mode at work — closed three deals nobody thought she could.
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(US, basketball, slang) Enthusiasm and excitement about the sudden rise of Jeremy Lin (then of the NBA's New York Knicks) to basketball stardom in 2012.
Operating with extreme intensity and dominance. From running back Marshawn Lynch's nickname; now used broadly in sports and beyond.
A high level of performance.
The state of being intensely locked in, operating at maximum intensity, completely in your element and going absolutely off. In NYC slang, being in mad mode means the usual filters and restraints are off and you're just running on full energy — whether that's in a creative flow state, a social setting where you're the life of the party, or a competitive situation where you're performing at a level that's making everyone else look like they came unprepared. Mad mode is not a sustainable state. But when you're in it, it's everything.
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