gaga

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1. informalMentally senile.

   The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga.

2. informalCrazy.

   You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.

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   'They're just making it look as if all their big shots were gaga. God knows how they're going to unscramble the whole business.'

   1953, Ian Fleming, “The White Tent”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 138

   Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?

   1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, Viking, page ??

3. informalInfatuated.

   The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of ga-ga (“game resembling dodgeball”).