go apeshit

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See apeshit.

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go apeshit (third-person singular simple present goes apeshit, present participle going apeshit, simple past went apeshit, past participle gone apeshit)

  1. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To behave in an extreme manner; to act without restraint, especially by becoming explosively angry.
    • 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 June 2009:
      Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
    • 2003 May 1, Ann Romano, “One Day at a Time: The Week in Review”, in The Portland Mercury, retrieved 16 June 2009:
      Naturally, the touchy airline crew went apeshit and when the plane landed, the LAPD was waiting for Mr. Zizza.
    • 2008 January 23, “Socialista Doorman Jeffrey Trunell Wants to Let You In But Sometimes Can't”, in New York Magazine, retrieved 16 June 2009:
      He walked down the street and I was looking past him and he went apeshit—"What the fuck you fuckin’ looking at? I’ll fuckin’ kill you."

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