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US
/ˈbɑŋkɝz/
]
[ UK /bˈɒŋkəz/ ]
[ UK /bˈɒŋkəz/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
it used to drive my husband balmy
How To Use bonkers In A Sentence
- She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
- Since Lochhead was appointed makar "it's been bonkers", she tells me. Poetry: a beautiful renaissance
- I am naturally, ...err , flattered that you refer to me as 'estimable', but am surprised that the only answer to the perfectly justified observation I made that it is 'bonkers' to assert that there have been 'deliberate moves' to break up the normal family as an aside, whatever that is is to make this comment: [those days] under the microscope
- Of course, this is but a soupcon of the bonkersauce, compared to the tureen of same that Tancredo has amassed in his political lifetime. Tom Tancredo's Greatest Hits (VIDEO)
- He's a modern artist of the old school: utterly fearless, profoundly confusing and completely bonkers.
- That's the impression I got when I first started exploring the subject, about 15 years ago, and even my closest friends and simpatico colleagues thought I was bonkers to write a whole book about them.
- He's the fellow who does our Face-Off features and compiles bonkers articles about individual BioShock frames, incidentally, and to whom words such as "quincunx" mean something. Eurogamer
- That they were not merely wasting their time, but were in fact bonkers, is now something we accept as a sine qua non of the market economy and is the direct legacy of Margaret Thatcher’s brutal lessons of the 1980s (one of her outstanding and, one hopes, everlasting, achievements) which threw all such notions of State control out of the window. Labour's Daemons Return?
- I went a bit bonkers when he told me the news.
- The use of the word bonkers should suffice as an explanation. And the Best New Insult is...