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Gaga vs Shirt - What's the difference?

gaga | shirt |

As an adjective gaga

is (label) (exhibiting the deterioration in the mind).

As a noun shirt is

an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

As a verb shirt is

to cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.

gaga

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Mentally senile.
  • The elderly patients in the hospital were going gaga .
  • (informal) Crazy.
  • You might go gaga if you stare at this screen too long.
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    Should he lose it once and for all, he and Kathleen would need lots of money. Also, he had said to me, you could be gaga in a tenured chair at Princeton, and would anybody notice?
  • (informal) Infatuated.
  • The girls were going gaga over the handsome new boy who joined the class.

    Usage notes

    * As demonstrated in the example sentences above, gaga'' is often preceded by the verb ''go .

    shirt

    English

    (wikipedia shirt)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.
  • * Addison
  • Several persons in December had nothing over their shoulders but their shirts .
  • * Bishop Fisher
  • She had her shirts and girdles of hair.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 9 , author=Mandeep Sanghera , title=Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.}}
  • a member of the shirt-wearing team.
  • Derived terms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover or clothe with a shirt, or as if with a shirt.
  • (Dryden)