crackers adj.
mad, crazy; thus crackers about, obsessed with; get the crackers, to go mad.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 65: Crackers, To Get The: To go off one’s head. Mad. | |
| Scourge of the Desert 122: ‘Crackers!’ whispered McCann. ‘You can betcha sweet life that guy’s gone cafard’ . | |
| They Die with Their Boots Clean 177: Nuts, I tell you, nuts, crazy, crackers! | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Come in Spinner (1960) 299: You’re crackers, absolutely crackers. Fancy missing a chance to go and live in the States. | |
| Riverslake 182: She’s crackers about the feller that got knocked down. | |
| There is a Happy Land (1964) 16: He’s not simple, he’s blinking crackers. [Ibid.] 139: Marion was dead crackers about the pictures. | |
| Frying-Pan 88: Sometimes I reckon I must definitely be crackers. | |
| Homesickness (1999) 204: Everyone’s either crackers or they’re getting at you. I’m not stupid. | |
| Foetal Attraction (1994) 16: You’re crackers! We can’t go in there. | |
| More Bible in Cockney 133: You’re a blinkin’ loony, Paul! You’ve studied so bloomin’ much that it’s made you completely crackers! |
In phrases
to go mad, to become insane, eccentric.
| Sunderland Dly Echo 29 Apr. 1/7: Man: ‘I think my wife has gone crackers!’ Chairman: ‘Crackers?’ Man: ‘Yes, “batchy,” bats in the belfry’. | |
| Gilt Kid 238: Don’t go crackers. | |
| ‘On Saturday Afternoon’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 102: I thought he’d gone crackers in a quiet sort of way. | |
| Start in Life (1979) 196: People may think I’ve gone crackers. | |
 | in Rekindled 137: I’d go crackers if I had to be away for more than two days. | |
| Happy Like Murderers 202: Rose used to go crackers at me to get rid of them. | |
| Beatles: The Dream Is Over 141: If you’re stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself, otherwise you’d go crackers. |