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go ballistic
verb as in flip out
verb as in freak out
Weak matches
- blow a gasket
- blow one's mind
- blow one's stack
- blow one's top
- break down
- come unglued
- crack up
- flip one's lid
- flip out
- fly off the handle
- go ape
- go bananas
- go berserk
- go haywire
- go nuts
- go off the deep end
- hit the ceiling
- lose control of oneself
- lose one's composure
- lose one's cool
- lose one's mind
- lose one's temper
- wig out
- work oneself up
verb as in go crazy
Weak matches
- blow a gasket
- blow one's mind
- blow one's stack
- blow one's top
- crack up
- flip one's lid
- flip out
- fly off the handle
- go bananas
- go batty
- go berserk
- go bonkers
- go buggy
- go cuckoo
- go daffy
- go haywire
- go kooky
- go loco
- go loony
- go mental
- go nuts
- go nutty
- go off one's rocker
- go off the deep end
- go off the wall
- go psycho
- go wacko
- go wacky
- lose control of oneself
- lose one's cool
- lose one's mind
- wig out
Example Sentences
“I knocked on the door, they answered it for some reason and I just started going ballistic.”
In an interview about the case given to investigators years later during Cox’s appeals process, Wilson said that this blow left the prosecutor “going ballistic.”
NBC reported that in the final days before Trump made the decision, Trump was leaning in the direction of Burgum, causing the boys to go ballistic:
"We knew that we had to go ballistic after how they batted. We had to take risks and thankfully they came off," said Bairstow.
The extremists went ballistic over this, cornering Johnson on the floor and he eventually shot down the rumor, saying the rule would not be changed.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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