1
as in to lose it
to yield to mental or emotional stress
a movie about a submarine captain who flips out when there's an emergency, leaving the crew to deal with it on their own
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2
as in to anger
to become very angry
when my wife saw that I had broken her great-grandmother's vase, she absolutely flipped out
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flip (out)
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Over the past several weeks, leaders in the MAHA movement and the GOP have been fighting over how to win the midterms without angering the factions that make up MAHA.—
Tom Bartlett,
The Atlantic,
26 Feb. 2026 -
David and Ina Steiner sued eBay in federal court in 2021 after they were stalked and harassed by employees who were angered by coverage on their blog, EcommerceBytes.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
26 Feb. 2026
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Hello from Milan and Cortina, where the USA women’s hockey team will face a familiar foe in the gold-medal game, two Americans were on the podium in women’s monobob and a Norwegian skier melted down after losing out on a medal.—
The Sports Desk,
NBC news,
16 Feb. 2026
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Inside the Arts District campus workspace, plastic donations are sorted, shredded and melted down using specialized equipment before being molded into new objects or artwork.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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Gwen then cracks a joke about firing Del Rio's character.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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Inside the pile of rocks at Delray Beach’s Anchor Park, there are hundreds of seashells, but most are broken, cracked, smashed or otherwise beaten up.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2026
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Recalled because a mixing error resulted in small cornstarch clumps in the product, resulting in a choking hazard.—
Josh Kelly,
Oklahoman,
27 Feb. 2026
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Levy brought the dog in dead and claimed that that the dog had a seizure and was vomiting, choking and twitching before his death.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
27 Feb. 2026
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Today's top stories NPR's senior political editor/correspondent Domenico Montanaro joins the newsletter today to break down the State of the Union address.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
25 Feb. 2026
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Larger mulch pieces like bark take longer to decompose, and smaller types break down faster.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
25 Feb. 2026
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The group was never broken up into first, second and third teams, nobody dropped out, and a handful of those players ended up turning professional.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
22 Feb. 2026
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Sifting aerates the flour and helps to break up any clumps.—
Sarah Carey,
Martha Stewart,
22 Feb. 2026
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Milwaukee won for the ninth time in 11 games, while the Heat saw its three-game winning streak snapped.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Texas enters the game off a loss to Georgia that snapped a five-game win streak and will face Texas A&M in college station this weekend.—
Sara Diggins,
Austin American Statesman,
25 Feb. 2026
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Kyle firefighters were working to extinguish a grass fire that was snarling traffic Tuesday afternoon in Hays County.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
24 Feb. 2026
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The storm snarled travel at airports and on the roads, breaking records in Providence, Rhode Island, and Islip, New York.—
Christopher Cann,
USA Today,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Flip (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip%20%28out%29. Accessed 2 Mar. 2026.
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