looney-tunes

See also: looney tunes and Looney Tunes

English

Etymology

From the adjective looney tunes.

Noun

looney-tunes (plural looney-tunes)

1. (colloquial, humorous) Loony, crazy, insane person.
   • 2002, David A. Enyart, Creative Anticipation: Narrative Sermon Designs for Telling the Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 155,

     Have we, as our culture so often claims, committed our lives to absurdity? Are we religious Looney-Tunes marching to the beat of a demonic drummer?

   • 2002, Robert S. Levinson, Hot Paint: A Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner Novel, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 295,

     Like that looney-tunes in Salt Lake City killed by the police after he gunned down a woman and a security guard and wounded four others at the Mormon Family History Library.

   • 2005, Jack Myers, Row House Days: Tales from a Southwest Philadelphia Childhoo, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 229,

     Otherwise, if you let these looney-tunes have the general run of the everyday world, there's no telling what kinds of destruction they may cause if left unchecked.

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