A vivid, playful slang adjective meaning completely crazy, chaotic, or wildly irrational — often used with affectionate exasperation rather than genuine alarm.
A vivid, playful slang adjective meaning completely crazy, chaotic, or wildly irrational — often used with affectionate exasperation rather than genuine alarm. Part of a family of food-item-plus-clothing compound intensifiers (cf. 'batshit', 'bonkers') that create comic effect through incongruity. Typically used to describe situations, ideas, or behaviour rather than to genuinely diagnose someone. Carries a light, humorous tone and is broadly family-friendly despite its hyperbolic meaning.
The planning meeting went completely bananapants when the CEO suggested rebranding the company as a wellness startup.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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A playfully exaggerated term for someone who is acting wildly irrational, unpredictably unhinged, or just spectacularly eccentric — either as a noun (that person is a total crazypants) or as an adjective (that idea is completely crazypants). The '-pants' suffix is a classic English comedy construction that softens and cartoonifies whatever word it's attached to, making the insult more affectionate than hostile. You'd call someone a crazypants with a grin, not a grimace. Common in informal American speech and online culture.
(slang) A crazy person.
(slang) Crazy.
Informal slang meaning very crazy, bizarre, or chaotic, usually applied to situations, ideas, or behavior that has gone completely off the rails. The compound is playful and absurdist rather than clinical; using it signals the speaker finds something simultaneously ridiculous and delightfully out of control. Common in internet commentary and casual speech among younger speakers. The clothing metaphor adds visual absurdity — imagining actual banana pants reinforces the sense of complete, colorful, inexplicable chaos.
The last five minutes of that show were absolutely bananapants — nobody saw that ending coming.
(slang) (Very) crazy.