Meaning & use
Troppo
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Mentally unstable or irrational, especially from prolonged heat, isolation, or stress; informal Australian slang.
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After months alone in the outback, he seemed to have gone a bit troppo.
The soldiers joked that the tropical heat would drive anyone troppo.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Italian "troppo" ("too much"), the term entered Australian slang through soldiers stationed in the tropics during World War II.
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sanelevel-headed
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