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flip (out)

verb

Definition of flip (out)next
slang
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)
  1. melt down
  2. anger
  3. crack
  4. snap
  5. choke
  6. snarl
  7. break down
  8. blow up
Verb
  • Welcome to a Thursday Nightcaps — the one where Paige Spiranac says goodbye to summer and defends Sydney Sweeney as the wokes continue to melt down over her sports gambling ad.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Thieves also are increasingly targeting museum items with gold and other precious metals that can be melted down and with gemstones that can be removed and sold, the agency said in a report in August.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of melt down
Verb
  • Abiy also angered Somalia by trying to negotiate access to the sea via the territory of Somaliland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2026
  • That is, Lamashtu spoke out about something that angered and disgusted the divine patriarch, and she was cast down to earth.
    — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of anger
Verb
  • Miller has attacked his opponent for a 1998 arrest in which Poindexter, a teenager at the time, allegedly tried to swallow a rock of crack cocaine during a traffic stop.
    — Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • They trade glances across the table and crack jokes that don’t always need explaining; the years together have apparently given them their own shorthand and inside humor.
    — Crystal Bell, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of crack
Verb
  • The $74 million mission was designed to snap photographs of Mars and study the planet's atmosphere for up to 10 months, but did perform science for over a year and continued to orbit the Red Planet through October 2022.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • At Meta’s campus, crowds lined up outside for the keynote speech as people snapped photos with a furry mascot called Jolly for the company’s AI agent Muse.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of snap
Verb
  • He was brought to the prison infirmary, where numerous guards surrounded, punched, kicked, choked, dropped and manhandled him.
    — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • During their time dating, Flowers’ friends and family received a video of Plummer striking Flowers, choking her and throwing her to the ground, prosecutors said.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of choke
Verb
  • The film opens upon a typical grumpy New York day, with traffic snarling the streets and horns honking.
    — Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The superload is expected to snarl traffic for the next four months as 50 loads will make the trip.
    — Jessica Riley, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of snarl
Verb
  • The Virginia Tech solutions aim to incorporate the ability to break down directly into the adhesive's molecular structure.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026
  • To break down a plastic bottle, science doesn’t need a hammer, but a microscopic scalpel.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of break down
Verb
  • But her list kept growing in the Eighties, when Hoffs suddenly blew up into a wildly famous rock star.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
  • On September 7 two other mathematicians used their program (and AI) to produce a blowup for a frictionless fluid—considered a major step toward blowing up Navier-Stokes.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of blow up
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“Flip (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flip%20%28out%29. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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