Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US campus) crazy, extreme, beyond limits.

2002		Urban Dict. 🌐.
2014		Indianapolis Star 13 July E3: [headline] OMG! You’re driving us cray cray.
2015		Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) 24 Sept. 🌐 It’s unbelievable. If you’d have told me seven years ago [...] I would have said, ‘that’s cray-cray!’.
2016		C. Eble UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016.
2016		languagejones.com 15 June 🌐 Cray Cray Note that the white mainstream use favors reduplication (so cray cray) whereas the AAE use does not (tha shi cray ‘That shit is crazy’).
2018		Negus Who Read Feb. 🌐 These White folks about to go cray-cray up here.
2018		‘Aidan Truhen’ Price You Pay 71: [T]hat fucker is craycray.
2020		M. Hyde on Twitter 25 May 🌐 [Cummings] keeps going on about wanting to try to go back to work - having just painted himself as some kind of cray-cray freelance optician.
2022		J. Hannaham Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 40: Vogue femme cray-cray with extra cheese.