schizo

schizo
/skit"soh/, n., pl. schizos, adj. Informal.
n.
1. a schizophrenic or schizoid person.
adj.
2. schizophrenic or schizoid.
3. crazy; wildly eccentric; lunatic.
Also, schitzo, schitz, schiz (for defs. 1, 2).
[1940-45; by shortening; cf. -O]

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