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  • adjective Australia, slang, humorous Injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control; berserk.

Etymologies

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A jocular misspelling of berserk, used as a recurring joke in the 1970s Australian television series Number 96.

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Examples

  • I found that the poetry was either wrongly or oddly formatted as is, and if I tried to enlarge the text (OK, my eyes ain't as good as they used to be) the formatting would go skewiff at best, and beresque at worst - in other words, did not handle line breaks, indents and stanza breaks.

    Ruby Street 2010

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