ka-zip n.
In phrases
(US) insane, eccentric.
![]() | Works 257: ‘You’re off your kazip,’ declared another of the gang. | in|
![]() | DN III:iv 290: be off one’s base, (box, kerzip, nut), v.phr. To be out of one’s mind. ‘You’re offn your kerzip if you think I’d do that.’. | ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in|
![]() | Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 26 June 2/1: Editor Lightfoot [...] is evidently off his ‘kazip’ when he says Genweral Gilchrist was niminated [...] because he opposed prohibition. | |
![]() | Clinch Valley News (Jeffersonville, VA) 25 Feb. 2/3: There is a mistake. John Hart could not make such a statement [...] Some body was off his kazip. | |
![]() | Runyon on Broadway (1954) 208: A young guy [...] goes right off his ka-zip about her. | ‘Broadway Financier’ in|
![]() | Uncomplaining Corpses 145: He had gone off his kazip and said some things he didn't mean up there in the apartment. |