Meanings
- slangCrazy; unhinged; irrational.
"'You outta your tree?' yelped Stan.'Choo say [Voldemort's] name for?'"
1999, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban3 more examples
Clay had learned to bring a book with him when he took Henry shopping; otherwise, he would go out of his tree with boredom.
2003, Diane Chamberlain, Kiss River, Mira, →ISBN, page 79I, again jokingly finalized: that to believe her own hypothesis, she had to be out of her tree, […]
2009, Terry Stocker, The Paleolithic Paradigm, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 324He was singing and sobbing and carrying on, out of his tree with alcohol, […]
2010, Helen Simpson, In-Flight Entertainment: Stories, Knopf, →ISBNSynonyms: off one's tree, out of one's box, out of one's gourd, out of one's head, out of one's mind, out of one's skull, out there
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseCrazy; unhinged; irrational.
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out of one's tree. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/out%20of%20one's%20tree
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