What does out to lunch mean?

out to lunch

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English

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adj

Informal

"She's out to lunch right now, but you may leave her a note."
"After he drove with his turn signal on for five miles, I was pretty sure he was out to lunch."
"Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippy, good-timer, (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terribly bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch."
"But then along came this biter / And he was so out of touch / So completely self indulgent / Just so out to lunch"

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