go gaga over

go gaga over
To receive positively or react to with enthusiasm, especially to an excessive degree.

He always goes gaga over his favourite bands newest album.


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  • gaga — adj. 1. mentally or physically infirm with age. Syn: doddering, senile. [WordNet 1.5] 2. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; as, gaga over his girlfriend. Syn: crazy about, dotty, enamored, infatuated, in love, smitten, soft on(predicate) …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • gaga — /ˈgaga / (say gahgah) Colloquial –adjective 1. mad; fatuously eccentric. 2. senile. 3. besotted: he is gaga about his new car. –phrase 4. go gaga over, to be wildly excited or enthused about. {French: senile, a senile person (probably imitative) …  

  • gaga — [[t]gɑ͟ːgɑː[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ If you say that someone is gaga, you mean that they cannot think clearly any more, especially because they are old. [INFORMAL] I do it because if you don t keep your brain working you go gaga. Syn: dotty …   English dictionary

  • gaga — /gah gah /, adj. Informal. 1. excessively and foolishly enthusiastic: The public went gaga over the new fashions. 2. ardently fond; infatuated: He s gaga over the new girl in class. 3. demented; crazy; dotty. Also, ga ga. [1915 20; < F; imit.] *… …   Universalium

  • gaga — adv. (colloq.) enthusiastic to go gaga over smt. * * * [ gɑːgɑː] [ enthusiastic ] (colloq.) to go gaga over smt …   Combinatory dictionary

  • gaga —    (GAH gah) [French] A slang adjective meaning childish, silly, or nutty, often applied to older people in their dotage. To be gaga over something or someone is to be infatuated with or crazy about the object of attention.    Everyone in… …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

  • gaga — adjective (not before noun) informal 1 an insulting word used to describe someone who is confused because they are old: Sid keeps forgetting my name. I think he s going a bit gaga. 2 having a strong but often temporary feeling of love for… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • gaga — Synonyms and related words: ape about, apish, asinine, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, befooled, beguiled, besotted, bonkers, brainless, buffoonish, buggy, bughouse, bugs, bugs on, cockeyed, cracked on, crackers, crazy, crazy about,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • gaga — ga|ga [ ga,ga ] adjective INFORMAL 1. ) not thinking clearly because you have very strong feelings of love for someone or because you are very enthusiastic or excited about something: Teenage girls have gone gaga over the band s lead singer. 2. ) …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • gaga — adj senile, crazy, besotted. The word has come into world English from French, via upper class or educated British English of the 1920s. In French it was probably originally a nursery word, influenced by grand pere (grandfather) and gateux… …   Contemporary slang

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