stir crazy/happy

stir crazy/happy
adj
psychologically disturbed as a result of confinement in prison (stir). The notion is sometimes extended to encompass a sense of frustration or hysteria felt in any institutional surroundings. (The less common form 'stir happy' is now dated.)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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