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1. Stir crazy

   Stir-crazy is an alternate idiom for cabin fever, a negative reaction caused by prolonged confinement.

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1. Stir crazy

   Stir Crazy is a phrase that dates to 1908 according to the Oxford English Dictionary and the online Etymology Dictionary. Used among inmates in prison, it referred to a prisoner who became mentally unbalanced because of prolonged incarceration. It is based upon the slang stir to mean prison. It is now used to refer to anyone who becomes restless or anxious from feeling trapped and even somewhat claustrophobic in an environment, usually a confined space, perceived to be more static and unengaging than can any longer continue to hold interest, meaning, and value to and for them. 'Stir crazy' could be classified as a more specific form of boredom, but combined with elevated and often increasing levels of anxiety, frustration, agitation, figeting, manic depressive type mood swings, and accessory episodes of acting out violently or otherwise antisocially on those feelings, the longer the unengaging non-stimulating environment is persisted in. 'Stir crazy' has a similar meaning to cabin fever, except minus the urge to disengage and sleep more, plus the urge to engage and attempt doing anything perceived to be even slightly more constructive and productive, given the extreme limitations of the environment, even if plainly destructive, than doing nothing at all. Prisoners will sometimes initiate otherwise easily avoidable conflict for no other reason than they perceive they have nothing else better or more worth while to do.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stir crazy in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stir crazy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of stir crazy in a Sentence

1. Frank Feerini:

   I think that people want to get out, i think they've been cooped up, I think they're going stir crazy.

2. Samantha Salinas:

   As frustrating as it was to be a nurse, now that I'm not at the bedside I'm feeling a bit guilty. I'm working in an office, my husband gets a little stir crazy, and the baby wants to go places. But there's nothing more important than protecting us.

3. Glenn Foley:

   The applause tells the story, but Goodell should have squashed it immediately and said, ‘We’re in the process of educating players.’ CTE is real. Adams is 20-something years old, stir crazy right now, in the New York spotlight. I don’t blame him for saying that. But to ignore CTE is to ignore the facts. That’s not the message the NFL wants.

4. Sawyer Smith:

   It's not really to the point where we're getting stir-crazy, if they keep us in the rooms for four to five days it might be a little different.

5. Juda Engelmayer:

   He doesn't like being left alone, when no one's there, he said he's just staring at the four walls. He can go stir crazy just staring at the emptiness.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stir_Crazy
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=stir crazy