cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Catchphrase of Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, the cartoon mascot of the General Mills breakfast cereal Cocoa Puffs: "I go cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!" See cuckoo (“crazy”).
Meanings
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(US, not-comparable, slang) Crazy, insane, irrational.
This girl is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.
1994, Helen Childress, Reality Bites, spoken by Troy Dyer (Ethan Hawke):'She's totally cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs.'
2010, Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall: