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What does stir-crazy mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic) Of a prisoner, mentally unbalanced due to prolonged incarceration.
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) Restless, uncomfortable, or impatient due to inactivity or confinement.
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There is only so much simple knitting that a girl can do in a dark colour 4-ply before she starts going stir-crazy.
A particular blizzard roared on for days at a time, and she was getting stir-crazy being stuck in the house while the storm blew over.
After dangling for hours within arms reach of each other, the two PTIs started looking for ways to keep amused to avoid going stir-crazy.
I just know I'm going to go stir-crazy if I stay in all weekend.
I took him home a week later, because he was going stir-crazy without human contact.
Before the race, he feared that he'd go stir-crazy between miles 4 and 26, as he had during practice runs.

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