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Meaning of whacky

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  whacky
      adj 1: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not
             going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky
             plan for selling more books" [syn: {cockamamie},
             {cockamamy}, {goofy}, {sappy}, {silly}, {wacky},
             {whacky}, {zany}]
      2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
         drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats},
         {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked}, {crackers}, {daft},
         {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco},
         {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around
         the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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