"like mad" meaning in English

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          "text": "We poked a stick into the hornets' nest and ran like mad.",
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          "ref": "1567, “The .vj. Egloge”, in George Turberville, transl., The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, London",
          "text": "They neuer linne to scrape our goodes / till all our wealth be gone. / Which if we chaunce to sée, / excuses then are had: / But so we sée not when ’tis done, / they will denie like mad / They neuer toke away / one iote but was their owne:",
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          "ref": "1667, “The Seventh Vision of Hell Reform’d”, in Roger L’Estrange, transl., The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, page 258",
          "text": "The Devils fell upon the Damn’d; and the Damn’d fell upon the Devils, without knowing One from t’other: and all running helter-skelter, to and again, like Mad; for in fine, it was no other then a general Revolt.",
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          "text": "I’d laughed. He’d laughed. Mine lasted the longest. During it, I thought it was going to change into a cry. But it didn’t. My eyes blinked like mad but then it was okay.",
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        "Like a mad person; in a furious or deranged manner; to a great or excessive degree; with great enthusiasm."
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          "word": "like crazy"
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