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ga·ga

(gä′gä′)

adj. Informal

1. Silly; crazy.

2. Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited: They were gaga over the rock group's new album.

3. Senile; doddering.

[French, old fool, gaga, of imitative origin.]

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gaga

(ˈɡɑːɡɑː)

adj

1. senile; doting

2. slightly crazy

[C20: from French, of imitative origin]

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ga•ga

(ˈgɑˌgɑ)

adj. Informal.

1. excessively and foolishly enthusiastic: to go gaga over the new fashions.

2. ardently fond; infatuated.

3. crazy; dotty.

4. senile; mentally confused.

[1915–20; < French; imitative]

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Adj.	1.	gaga - mentally or physically infirm with age; "his mother was doddering and frail" doddering, doddery, senile old - (used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age; "his mother is very old"; "a ripe old age"; "how old are you?"
	2.	gaga - intensely enthusiastic about or preoccupied with; "crazy about cars and racing"; "he is potty about her" dotty, crazy, wild colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech enthusiastic - having or showing great excitement and interest; "enthusiastic crowds filled the streets"; "an enthusiastic response"; "was enthusiastic about taking ballet lessons"

gaga

adjective

1. Informal. Given to lighthearted silliness:

empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, lighthearted, scatterbrained, silly.

Slang: birdbrained, dizzy.

2. Informal. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness:

brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong.

Informal: bonkers, cracked, daffy, loony.

Slang: bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky.

Chiefly British: crackers.

Law: non compos mentis.

Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad.

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gaga

[ˈgɑːˈgɑː] ADJ → gagá, lelo, chocho
to go gaga; be going gaga (= senile) → chochear; (= ecstatic) → caérsele a algn la baba

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

gaga

[ˈgɑːgɑː] adj
to go gaga → devenir gaga or gâteux/eusegagging order n → interdiction f de divulgation

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

gaga

adj (Brit inf) → plemplem (inf), → meschugge (inf); old person → verkalkt (inf); to go gaga (= go senile) → verkalken (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

gaga

[ˈgɑːgɑː] adj (fam) to go gaga → rimbambire

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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