adj
Meaning 1
Mad, insane, eccentric.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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Phrase guide
doolally tap
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noun
Meaning 2
Camp fever; by extension, madness, eccentricity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Etymology
From Deolali (the name of a former British army camp 100 miles north-east of Bombay, used as a transit station for soldiers awaiting transport back to Britain) + tap (from Persian or Urdu تب (tab, “malarial fever”), ultimately from Sanskrit ताप (tāpa, “heat; fever”)). According to one suggestion, to go doolally tap was to go crazy while waiting.