unglued
English
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Verb
[edit]unglued
- simple past and past participle of unglue
Adjective
[edit]unglued (comparative more unglued, superlative most unglued)
- (not comparable) Not secured with glue.
- The unglued joints all fell apart in shipment, but the properly joined piece survived intact.
- (comparable, slang) Insane, upset.
- He was calm at first, then suddenly he came unglued and started screaming. He completely lost it.
- 2019 September 3, David Karpf, “Bret Stephens Compared Me to a Nazi Propagandist in the New York Times. It Proved My Point.”, in Esquire[1]:
- There is something inherently entertaining about the self-proclaimed defender of uncomfortable speech on college campuses coming unglued when he found a sentence on the Internet that he didn't like.
- 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired[2], →ISSN:
- One was Climategate, where global warming skeptics seized on the leaked emails of atmospheric scientists and produced reams of feverish, unglued analyses.