Usually means: Agitated from prolonged confinement indoors.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. stir-crazy: Merriam-Webster
  2. stir-crazy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stir-crazy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stir-crazy, stir-crazy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stir-crazy: Wordnik
  6. stir-crazy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. stir-crazy: Wiktionary
  8. stir-crazy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. stir-crazy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. stir-crazy: Dictionary.com
  11. stir-crazy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Stir-crazy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. stir-crazy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stir-crazy: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stir-crazy: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (slang) Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.
▸ adjective:  (slang, by extension) Restless, uncomfortable, or impatient due to inactivity or confinement.

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