FLIP OUT Synonyms: 64 Similar and Opposite Words

flip (out)

verb

Definition of flip (out)

slang

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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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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Here’s why How junk silver is valued The price of junk silver is based on its melt value — the value of the silver content if the coin were melted down.

— Nick Perry, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of melt down

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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

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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

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Starting Saturday evening and continuing into Sunday morning’s high tide, the ocean poured into urban cities up and down the coast, breaking a recent record for flooding in Fort Lauderdale and snarling traffic in both counties.

— Alex Harris Updated September 27, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2026
The prolonged war in Ukraine has also snarled global wheat trade through the Black Sea, compounding economic effects and undermining food security in vulnerable countries.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of snarl

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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

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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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