flipped out
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Customers flipped out when they announced the sale, grilling the sisters — puns intended — about whether the restaurant would close.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
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
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
"My X-ray tech only just flipped out and tried to climb over the fence."
From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos
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
