Definition of "bananas" []

• Slang Crazy: "That's the horrible thing when you're bananas—nobody can know the awful things that are going on in your head” ( Otto Friedrich). "City dwellers . . . are subjected to so much noise it drives them bananas” ( New Yorker). (adjective)

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• "The idea of a kid catching his mom fellating (sp?) some young dude she picked up, and then as her only “punishment” restricting her to eat bananas is just a bit weird to me … her casual self centered attitude about most everything was offensive to me."
• "And P.S., another way to save your bananas from the dumps is to freeze them."
• "Based on a true story - the driver had picked up his load of bananas from the docks in New Jersey, came down the hill into Scranton at 90mph and made a real mess of things."