Meanings
comparative more banoodles · superlative most banoodles
- humorousslangCrazy.
The joint with Sean P is banoodles.
2008 February 5, Luca, “new EMC album...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet)5 more examples
There is a genuine fondness among others for [Jeff] Van Gundy. “He’s crazy, intense,” guard Chris Childs said, “not bananas, but ba[-]noodles. More like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But I love him. I have respect for him.”
1999 May 30, Ira Winderman, “Talk is cheap, unless it’s the Heat talking”, in Sun-Sentinel, page 9CYeah . . . but that was all that Korean shit with the kicks, oh shit, that shit was bananas. Banoodles son.
2004, Jee Kim, “Bi-bim-bap”, in Emily Bernard, editor, Some of My Best Friends: Writings on Interracial Friendships, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 22“Yep, that seems like yesterday when my life was a freakin’ fairytale. It’s banoodles how much can change in a few months. Now I’m living in a nightmare,” I said solemnly.
2008, Deja King, The Bitch Is Back, Columbus, Ohio: Triple Crown Publications, →ISBN, page 80Especially because it seems PRO (the artist formerly known as Prokid) is truly at home on DJ Sbu's record label and is doing the sort of music that he is thrilled about on his third studio album, Dankie San.¶ And we're thrilled too, when taking into consideration the number of people who go banoodles when the IV League- produced song Bhampa is played anywhere at any time.
2008 May 1, “Button Up”, in Independent Online, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023The Sex And The City launch last weekend was banoodles. In a lineup of ladies that coiled around the block at Fifth Avenue Cinemas, body parts were lifted, separated, bronzed, flattened, squished together and elongated. It was amazing.
2008 June 4, Andrea Woo, “Sex And The City’s big night”, in Metro, Vancouver, B.C.: Metro International, page 25, column 1
Origin
Blend of bananas (“crazy, nuts”) + noodles.
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