Meanings
- colloquialhumorousLoony, crazy, insane person.
2002, David A. Enyart, Creative Anticipation: Narrative Sermon Designs for Telling the Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 155, Have we, as our culture so often claims, committed our lives to absurdity? Are we religious Looney-Tunes marching to the beat of a demonic drummer?
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2002, Robert S. Levinson, Hot Paint: A Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner Novel, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 295, Like that looney-tunes in Salt Lake City killed by the police after he gunned down a woman and a security guard and wounded four others at the Mormon Family History Library.
2005, Jack Myers, Row House Days: Tales from a Southwest Philadelphia Childhoo, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 229, Otherwise, if you let these looney-tunes have the general run of the everyday world, there's no telling what kinds of destruction they may cause if left unchecked.
Origin
From the adjective looney tunes.
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