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mad(1) (iou) and Crop - Horse Racing (gambling)


mad(1) (iou)



mad adjective. [mad] Compar. & superl. -dd-.

Insane; suffering from a psychotic illness. Now also, maniacal, frenzied. OE.
mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare, etc.
Tennyson And then to hear a dead man chatter Is enough to drive one mad.
b. Causing madness. rare. M16-L17.
Foolish, unwise. Now spec. extravagantly or wildly foolish; ruinously imprudent. OE.
Ld Macaulay The chief justice..was not mad enough to risk a quarrel on such a subject.
Carried away by enthusiasm or desire; wildly excited; infatuated. Foll. by about, for, on, etc. ME.
Music-mad, poetry-mad, sex-mad, etc.
H. Jacobson Despite myself I was mad about her. She was so good at what she did.
b. Wildly desirous to do something. Now rare. E17.
Beside oneself with anger; moved to uncontrollable rage; furious. Now also, annoyed, exasperated. (Foll. by at, with, etc.) Chiefly colloq. ME.
C. Brown I was mad..I was going to beat both of their asses. J. J. Hennessy I was so mad with her..that I walked out of the room.
Of an animal: abnormally furious, rabid; spec. suffering from rabies. ME.
Uncontrolled by reason; (wildly) irrational in demeanour or conduct. LME.
D. DeLillo Has my life been a mad dash for pleasure?
b. Of a storm, a wind: wild, violent. L16.
Phrases: go mad become insane; become wildly or frenziedly abnormal. like mad furiously, with excessive violence or enthusiasm. run mad = go mad above. staring mad: see STARING adjective 1.
Special collocations & comb.: mad-apple arch. [translating Latin malum insanum, alt. of an oriental word] an aubergine. mad-brain noun & adjective (a) noun a mad-brained person, a scatterbrain; (b) adjective mad-brained. mad-brained adjective hotheaded, uncontrolled; scatterbrained. mad cow disease colloq. = bovine spongiform encephalopathy s.v. BOVINE adjective 1. mad-doctor arch.: who treats the insane. mad Greek: see GREEK noun 5. madhead (obsolete exc. dial.) an insane or wildly foolish person. mad-headed adjective = mad-brained above. madhouse (a) (arch. or colloq.) a mental Home or hospital; (b) fig. a scene of extreme confusion or uproar. mad keen adjective (slang) extremely eager. madman an insane or wildly foolish man. mad mick: see MICK noun1. mad minute Military slang a short period of rapid rifle-fire or frenzied bayonet-practice. mad money colloq. money for use in an emergency. mad scientist an eccentric or dangerously insane scientist (a stock figure of melodramatic horror-stories). madstone US a stone supposedly having the power to counteract the effect of the bite of a rabid animal. madtom any catfish of the N. American freshwater genus Noturus, comprising small forms resembling tadpoles and with poisonous pectoral fins. madwoman an insane or wildly foolish woman.
maddish adjective (a) of or pertaining to a mad person; resembling a mad person in behaviour; (b) somewhat mad: L16.
madling noun (now rare) a mad person; a person who acts insanely or foolishly: M17.

Crop - Horse Racing (gambling)


1) The number of foals by a sire in a given year. 2) A group of horses born in the same year An average crop of three-year-olds. 3) A jockey' s whip.