to acting shitnuts
- idiom
- Offensive
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[VULGAR] comportarse de forma extremadamente irracional
- Everyone thought she was acting shitnuts when she danced on the table.
Examples
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After drinking too much coffee, he started acting shitnuts at the office.
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Stop acting shitnuts and try to focus for a minute.
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Why are you acting shitnuts in class?
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Stop acting shitnuts and focus on your work!
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After the long meeting, he started acting shitnuts and made everyone laugh.
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During the party, she was acting shitnuts, wearing a funny hat and telling jokes.
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He was clearly acting shitnuts when he tried to skateboard down the stairs.
Synonyms
2
9.9
To become very angry and act in a wild, out of control way
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6.3
Behave in a way you cannot predict, often changing suddenly
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8.9
Behave in a strange, nervous, or unpredictable way
Acting in a very strange and not sensible way
Wild and noisy in a way that makes people feel upset
To act confused and react too strongly in a surprising way
To behave in a silly or wild way that makes people laugh
Antonyms
How Crazy
- Offensive
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6.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
act + shitnuts
The construction 'acting + [modifier]' is compositionally transparent — it straightforwardly means 'behaving in the way described by the modifier'. However, 'shitnuts' is a non-standard, vulgar slang coinage; while its parts ('shit' as an intensifier and 'nuts' meaning 'crazy') give a partial clue, the exact sense and register are unpredictable for learners without exposure, so it is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Acting shitnuts probably comes from joining the normal word acting with the rude word shitnuts, which people use to call someone wild or foolish. The loud image of someone behaving totally out of control is why the phrase now means 'behaving in a very crazy or uncontrolled way'.