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LOONEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does looney mean? 

LOONEY (noun)
  The noun LOONEY has 1 sense:

1. someone deranged and possibly dangerousplay

  Familiarity information: LOONEY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LOONEY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone deranged and possibly dangerous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

crazy; looney; loony; nutcase; weirdo

Hypernyms ("looney" is a kind of...):

lunatic; madman; maniac (an insane person)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


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