Definition of "stir-crazy" []

• Informal Distraught or restless from long confinement in or as if in prison. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I think the nigga was getting stir-crazy or something."
• "That was plenty of ammunition for stir-crazy citizens who, when called together by Facebook and Twitter, chose a little civil combat over another three snowbound hours of, well, Facebook and Twitter."
• "You can go back to snowed-in stir-crazy cabin-fever paranoia in a couple of months."