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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
bananas
 
SYLLABICATION:ba·nan·as
PRONUNCIATION:  b-nnz
ADJECTIVE: Slang Crazy: “That's the horrible thing when you're bananas—nobody can know the awful things that are going on in your head” (Otto Friedrich). “City dwellers . . . are subjected to so much noise it drives them bananas” (New Yorker).
ETYMOLOGY:From banana, worthless or crazy person, from banana.
 
 
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