Mad Max
adjEtymology After the Mad Max film franchise.
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Figuratively, Informal Suggesting an anarchic, chaotic, or dystopian world or environment.
- It is of course my wish to return alive to Norway ... I feel that some of the more experienced veterans in the unit have become a bit more 'Mad Max' than others.2009, B. Maeland, P. Brunstad, Enduring Military Boredom, From 1750 to the Present, page 94:
- Related terms
- let them eat cake, nasty, brutish, and short, social safety net