bananas

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of banana.

   Ripe bananas turn brown after a few days on the counter.

   Farmers shipped thousands of bananas to markets overseas.

   Note

   A regular plural: banana simply adds -s, with no change to the stem. Because banana can also be used as an uncountable noun (some banana in the smoothie), the plural is the form you reach for when the fruit is counted: three bananas, a bunch of bananas. The same spelling also serves as the adjective meaning "crazy".

2. 2
   adjective

   Crazy, mad, or nuts.

   The whole stadium went bananas after the last-second winning goal.

   He thought the entire plan was completely bananas and refused to take part.

   Similarcrazy, nuts, mad, bonkers, insane

   Oppositesane, sensible, reasonable

   Note

   A word that looks like a plural noun but works as a full adjective. It follows a linking verb, as in Saul Bellow's Humboldt's Gift (1976): "You must be bananas." It can also stand before a noun, as in "the bananas spectacle," and it takes intensifiers freely; the climate scientist Zeke Hausfather called one September "absolutely gobsmackingly bananas." The -s stays in the comparative: more bananas, not more banana.

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