Meaning & use

Cray

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(slang) Crazy; wild or extreme.

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That party last night was absolutely cray.

"That's so cray," she laughed, shaking her head at the outrageous story.

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Cray is a clipped, informal form of 'crazy' popularized in 2010s pop culture and hip-hop slang; it stays largely limited to spoken or social-media English.

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