flipped out
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Smart beds flipped out during the AWS outage, and so did their sleepy owners.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
"When they said the new Pope was an American, I flipped out, I said 'no way'!" said Mary Simons, a French teacher and nearby resident who brought her mother to see St Mary's.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
One commenter flipped out about her not making the statement in a post on her grids, where they would last, rather than in her stories, which have expired.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024
James Acaster hilariously flipped out over the whole “I’m a stand-up comedian, I’m meant to challenge people!” five years ago.
From Salon ● May 24, 2024
“Everyone knows what happened. It’s happened once or twice— some Griever-stung shank flipped out and attacked somebody. Don’t think you’re special.”
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
From his flipped-out writing, I pictured a wild-eyed comedy dervish, muttering and slobbering like the Tasmanian Devil.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2013
This sealed his reputation as the most flipped-out man in the movies, and he spent the next 15 years in foreign films, personal projects, and low-budget arthouse or exploitation movies.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2010
"Jochen has flipped-out tastes, and I've got commercial ones."
From Time Magazine Archive
In the darkness there was that flipped-out tribal music, which seemed to come from the earth itself, from the deep rain forest, and a woman’s voice rising up in a language beyond translation.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
