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crazy quilt

noun

  1. a patchwork quilt made of irregular patches combined with little or no regard to pattern.
  2. something that is irregular in pattern or shape, and suggestive of a crazy quilt; patchwork.


crazy quilt

noun

  1. a patchwork quilt made from assorted pieces of material of irregular shape, size, and colour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of crazy quilt1

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
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Rounding out this crazy quilt of strained, intersecting story strands and blunt coincidences is a subplot that eventually becomes the main one.

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Over many years, as it grew into one of the city’s tent-pole institutions, the museum accreted some two dozen buildings in different historical styles, increasingly pieced together like a crazy quilt.

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“The Georgia statute kicks it to the school districts to develop their own policies, and we are seeing a crazy quilt,” Weber said.

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Even so, this is an irresistible crazy quilt of Western history.

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I peeked out my one window to be greeted by a sky like a gray flannel crazy quilt.

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