<adj.all> gave me a cockamamie reason for not going wore a goofy hat a silly idea some wacky plan for selling more books
informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
<adj.all> it used to drive my husband balmy
Wacke \Wack"e\, Wacky \Wack"y\, n. [G. wacke, MHG. wacke a large stone, OHG. waggo a pebble.] (Geol.) A soft, earthy, dark-colored rock or clay derived from the alteration of basalt.
Oddly, his first three roles have been crime-oriented: a wacky hit man in the gangster spoof, "Johnny Dangerously" which starred Michael Keaton; a mob errand boy with Danny DeVito "Wise Guys."
The NBC network canceled its first new series of the fall TV season, killing Mel Brooks's wacky hotel comedy "The Nutt House."
In the wacky world of political cartooning, large issues of war, peace, prosperity and social justice certainly rate attention.
"I know everybody remembers her as zany and wacky but that was only on the show.
But consider some of the wacky titles he's chosen for some of his work.
Bud Light commercials, which include a wacky dog named Spuds MacKenzie, have been scoring even better in popularity polls.
"Tattinger's" seems to be aiming for classy-though-absurd, but it tries too hard to be wacky, a quality that came naturally to "St.
Mel Brooks will return to network television next season after 14-year absence with a new comedy for NBC, "Nutt House," starring Cloris Leachman and Harvey Korman as the wacky staff of a New York hotel.
The wacky premise here is that as Herman (William Ragsdale), a young researcher in a Time-like organization, faces all the big and small crises in his life, we get to watch the different facets of his psyche warring over what direction he should take.
Elsewhere in Europe, software had been a business for wacky entrepreneurs in tiny independent companies or for teams of programmers in departments of big industrial and financial corporations.
He decides to try "truth in advertising" and comes up with a half-dozen wacky ad campaigns that inspire his associates to commit him to a sanitarium.