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  • noun Plural form of maniac.

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Examples

  • The first segment, detailing the first few hours after an unexplained radio/TV signal turns half of L.A. into homicidal maniacs, is potent and engrossing.

    2009 June : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • Fox, with it's stable of egotistical, hate-filled maniacs is not worth anything but the 'off' button on my remote.

    Republicans raising cash to counter-program ABC Obama special 2009

  • The first segment, detailing the first few hours after an unexplained radio/TV signal turns half of L.A. into homicidal maniacs, is potent and engrossing.

    Weekly Mishmash: May 31-June 6 : Scrubbles.net 2009

  • There are drivers who stand out, driving like frikin maniacs, yet I didn't see a single car accident.

    stuff that has changed & stuff that hasn't 2008

  • Handy was obviously little interested in nosological categories; most of the inmates were described as maniacs.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Handy was obviously little interested in nosological categories; most of the inmates were described as maniacs.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • On the other hand, anyone who tries to label the maniacs who committed the murders as "right wingers" is painting with too wide a brush.

    What the Murders of Dr. Tiller and Holocaust Museum Guard Really Mean 2009

  • I have to say it was a wonderful time with the kids...... they ran around like little maniacs, which is what kids do!

    Archive 2007-07-01 Michelle Amarante Photography 2007

  • I have to say it was a wonderful time with the kids...... they ran around like little maniacs, which is what kids do!

    Jacob & Conner Michelle Amarante Photography 2007

  • In short (to put the matter from the more common point of view), he dealt much in eastern heavens, rather worse than most western hells; in eastern monarchs, whom we might possibly call maniacs; and in eastern jewels which a Bond Street jeweller (if the hundred staggering negroes brought them into his shop) might possibly not regard as genuine.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

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