schizo
See also: schizo-
English
Etymology
Clipping of schizophrenic.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈskɪtsoʊ/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
schizo (plural schizos)
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) Schizophrenic.
- 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter IX, in The Satanic Verses, page 558:
- "Lucky for you you aren't in one of our great public hospitals; they put the loonies next to the heroin addicts, and there's so much drug traffic in the wards that the poor schizos end up with bad habits."
- (colloquial, derogatory, offensive) A mad or crazy person.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:mad person
Derived terms
Translations
(slang) schizophrenic
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crazy person — see lunatic
Adjective
schizo (comparative more schizo, superlative most schizo)
- (slang, derogatory, offensive) crazy, not of sound mind
French
Noun
schizo m or f (plural schizos)
- (colloquial) schizo
Further reading
- “schizo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish
Adjective
schizo (comparative mer schizo, superlative mest schizo)
- (slang) schizo (schizophrenic)
- Synonym: schizofren
- (slang) schizo (crazy, unpredictable, sometimes dangerous)
- Synonym: skitzad
Noun
schizo n
- (slang) a schizo (schizophrenic)
- (slang) a schizo (crazy, unpredictable, sometimes dangerous person)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | schizo | schizos |
| definite | schizot | schizots | |
| plural | indefinite | schizon | schizons |
| definite | schizona | schizonas |