Vocabulary lesson: "Bonkers", as in MAGA meltdown

 

Headline:  New York Times, 1/30/2024

For football fans eager to see a new team in the Super Bowl, the conference championship games on Sunday that sent the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers back to the main event of American sports culture were sorely disappointing. 

But one thing is new: Taylor Swift. And she is driving the movement behind Donald Trump bonkers.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of of "bonkers" occurred in 1945.

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. chugalug
2. d'oh
3. ejection seat
4. fundamental group
5. schizo
6. sheeple
7. squawk box

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Nudification.  (1/31/2024)

Right-size.  (1/14/2024)

Dumpster fire.  (10/20/2022)

Swinge.  (12/18/2018)

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Yaw.  (2/28/2013)