gonzo : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gonzo	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for gonzo
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gonzo adj conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" Synonym(s): bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off- the-wall, outlandish, outre
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
gonzo /gon'zoh/ adj. [from Hunter S. Thompson] 1. With total commitment, total concentration, and a mad sort of panache. (Thompson's original sense.) 2. More loosely: Overwhelming; outrageous; over the top; very large, esp. used of collections of source code, source files, or individual functions. Has some of the connotations of {moby} and {hairy}, but without the implication of obscurity or complexity.