Gonzo

Quick meaning: Gonzo is an adjective meaning Unconventional, bizarre, crazy. [from 1974].

Meaning

Unconventional, bizarre, crazy. [from 1974].

More Meanings

1. Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
2. (countable) A wild or crazy person.
3. (journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.

Example Sentences

Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown ... Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: Ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson

“Unstable” indeed! Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it. Of course: “The first annual Rolling Stone award for the year's finest example of pure gonzo journalism.”

I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa ^([sic]), ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”

Word Forms

• gonzos

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