- 1瘋了、腦子有問題（英式口語，常帶點取笑）。不是餅乾，也不是聖誕爆竹。
In this sense crackers is not food and not a Christmas toy. It is informal British English for crazy — the playful, everyday kind, not a doctor's word. You say it after be: he is crackers, that idea is crackers, you must be crackers to swim in this weather. It often sounds teasing rather than cruel, the way a friend says you have lost your mind. Older British speakers still use it; younger ones may prefer mad, nuts, or mental. Americans understand it from films more than they say it. You will not often hear a crackers person in front of the noun; it likes to sit after the verb. The picture behind it is an old navy joke: that someone had going off inside their head. First it was he's got the crackers, then he's gone crackers, and now he is crackers.
From the word’s history
Plural of cracker; the 'crazy' sense comes from British naval talk of firecrackers in one's head.
cracker 的複數；「瘋了」的用法源自英國海軍說腦中有鞭炮。
組成From cracker + -s. The crazy meaning comes from old British naval talk about firecrackers in someone's head, not from the biscuit.
同家族的字
- crackerthe same word as in firecracker — not the biscuit
- firecrackerthe picture behind the slang: a head full of little fireworks going off
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
crackersnoun
- 1
A kind of noisy leather pants or trousers.
- Sheepskin trousers—which, from the sound they make at every movement of the wearer, are called ‘crackers’.
- 2
slangTesticles.
crackersadj
- 1
Crazy, insane.
- “I will call up Demons to destroy thee!” “You're crackers,” said Carrot, backing away.
- He acknowledges that it must seem "a crackers thing to say", but given the substantial progress which has been made in other areas of the business, his optimism isn't without foundation.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- cracker
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。