0 a person with the medical condition of schizophrenia:
At the time he was treating schizos and depressives.
1 a person who acts in a strange and sometimes violent or threatening way :
2 having or relating to the medical condition of schizophrenia:
3 acting in a strange and sometimes violent or threatening way:
4 short form ofschizophrenic
The word "schizo" crops up a few times and sounds like an out-of-date childhood taunt.
In addition to such clearly offensive, and hence unacceptable, expressions as loony, maniac, nutter, psycho and schizo, the terms to avoid include "victim of" and "suffering from".
My colleague became a complete hostile schizo after I received a promotion.
"They call me a schizo," he whispered to a reporter last week.
His institutionalised schizo dad is played by Bill Pullman
If any of you did a little research on schizo disorders you will realize that this is for real, she is not malingering, and have a little compassion for this woman.
A doctor diagnosed me as nuts, told my mom I was borderline schizo.
Kentucky has never been on the map. Well, until that boy went schizo.