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nuts

1 adjective
     
nuts1 [not before noun] informal
1 crazy:
Are you nuts?
I'm going to go nuts (=become crazy) if I don't find a new job soon.
Turn that radio off. It's driving me nuts (=annoying me very much).
2

go nuts

spoken
a) to become very excited because something good has just happened:
The crowd went nuts after the third touchdown.
b) to become very angry about something:
Mom's going to go nuts if you don't clean this mess up.
3

be nuts about/over somebody/something

to like someone or something very much:
My wife is nuts about kids.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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