Etymology

cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs

Today it means: Crazy, insane, irrational. Full definition →

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The story

Catchphrase of Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the cartoon mascot of the General Mills breakfast cereal Cocoa Puffs: "I go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!" See cuckoo (“crazy”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.