Meanings
adjectiveMad Max (comparative more Mad Max, superlative most Mad Max)
comparative more Mad Max · superlative most Mad Max
- figurativelyinformalSuggesting an anarchic, chaotic, or dystopian world or environment.
It is of course my wish to return alive to Norway ... I feel that some of the more experienced veterans in the unit have become a bit more 'Mad Max' than others.
2009, B. Maeland, P. Brunstad, Enduring Military Boredom, From 1750 to the Present, page 94
Origin
After the Mad Max film franchise.
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