wacky
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 17
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 5
/ˈwæk.iː/
Definition of wacky
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(informal, slang)Zany; eccentric.
“Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.”
“How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions? They seem to get wackier all the time.”
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adj
-
(informal, slang)Zany; eccentric.
“Though the idea of placing wacky made-up characters in a real-life context was carried over from Da Ali G Show—wherein Buzz Aldrin was once asked if he was upset that Michael Jackson got all the credit for inventing the moonwalk—Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat felt like something new, an attempt to square an improvised, guerrilla style of underground comedy with reality-TV stunt shows like Jackass or Fear Factor.”
“How do artists and curators come up with titles for exhibitions? They seem to get wackier all the time.”
noun
- (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of wacke.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From whack (“someone who whacked his head onto something often, hence being weird”) + -y.
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