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troppo
adjective- insane, mad, crazy AUSTRALIA, 1941
Of military origins; an abbreviation of “tropical” or “tropics” as a reference to mental or nervous instability caused by war service in the tropics. - We relieved our wound-up minds with a sort of desperate, manufactured humour, even feigning the madness we felt that the monotony might bring on us. “Troppo acts” we called them. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 105, 1954
- It began to be rumoured that Sandy was “troppo”. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 37, 1960
- Spotto stared at the Colonel and wondered whether he was a bit troppo. — Ray Slattery, Mobbs’ Mob, p. 113, 1966
- Too much sun sends you troppo north of the border. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 178, 1987
- — Harry Orsman and Des Hurley, The Beaut Little Book of New Zealand Slang, 1994
- sunburnt, suffering from too much exposure to the sun and wind AUSTRALIA
- — Trevor Cralle, The Surfin’ary, p. 148, 1991
- especially in Queensland, of a building designed for tropical weather AUSTRALIA
- The house is a troppo design. — www.abc.net.au/wordmap, 2003
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