maniac
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈmeɪniæk/
- Offensive
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maníaco (ofensivo)
- Bain strides across the plaza, a maniac gleam in his eye.
- laugh like a maniac
- grin like a maniac
- dance like a maniac
It is causing us to become maniacs and not think clearly through this.
- It is causing us to become maniacs and not think clearly through this.
- Yes, All right, so when I started cooking food, I was cooking for like fucking maniacs.
- What does bother me a lot is this my entire apartment is clean and one thing's out of place, then I'm like a maniac.
- There's a pretty known thing amongst the most hard maniacs is that when I go on book tour, I always start at Powell's in Portland.
- Hausman was a maniac for a number of things, especially I don't know about his personal life here.
- Someone guy, someone eyed fucking, you know, music maniac running Skrillex, you know?
- A Pyro maniac promised you a flame.
- So this this shows that me and Andrew must look like we are sex maniacs or something.
- You don't want to name your child Bulletproof cannon now, yo, bullet, get your little fat ass in, young bullet, young maniac.
Examples
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"So," she began with a nicely controlled smile, "when did you first discover you were a maniac?"
Fiction book (2001) -
My teacher and friend, Dick Koehler, is a maniac for training dogs instead of killing them.
Academic text (1993) -
Then I shouted with joy and started dancing around the room like a maniac.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the truck, Sancho was laughing like a maniac and wiping the tears and his nose on his sleeve.
Fiction book (1990) -
He's a fitness maniac, spending hours every day at the gym.
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The fans were true maniacs, cheering wildly for their team throughout the whole game.
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She became a gardening maniac, collecting every plant she could find and posting about them online.
Synonyms
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7.7
A person who is very interested in a particular hobby or subject
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5.5
A person who is very excited about one activity, like music or sport
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4.7
A person who likes an activity very much and spends a lot of time doing it
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7.5
A person who loves something and spends a lot of time on it
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3.7
A person who loves something like a band or team a lot and shows strong support
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6.5
A person who thinks about one thing too much in a way that harms them
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9.9
A person who thinks about one idea so much they ignore other things
A person who thinks about one thing too much
A person who is very interested in one thing, like games or news
A person who loves an activity very much and spends a lot of time on it
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Etymology
The word maniac comes from an old Greek word mania, meaning 'madness' or 'frenzy', and it is the same root as manic. So calling someone a maniac for football or fitness says they are very excited or deeply obsessed with it.