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troppo, a. Austral. slang.|ˈtrɒpəʊ|
[f. tropic n. and a.1 + -o2.]
Mentally ill through spending too much time (orig. on war service) in the tropics; (hence simply) crazy, mad. Esp. in phr. to go troppo.
1943G. Johnston New Guinea Diary 222 ‘A man must be going troppo,’ he remarks quietly. 1958R. Stow To Islands i. 19 ‘Terry thinks he's going troppo.’ ‘Troppo?’ ‘It's not in the Nurse's Encyclopaedia. Means going queer from being too long in the tropics.’ 1968S. L. Elliott in E. Hanger Three Austral. Plays i. i. 33 Only fourteen months here and he's troppo... Know what he does this morning?.. Gets out of bed at reveille and goes off to shave with his spoon and fork. 1975Sun-Herald (Sydney) 30 Nov. 131 Aunty Jack..could bring a badly-needed fresh burst of local comedy (in a troppo way) to our screens. |