1
as in melted down
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 had a fit
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 flipped (out)
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The industry was already struggling with cost overruns when, in 1979, a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania partially melted down and slammed the brakes on further expansion.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
15 June 2026 -
OpenAI’s version has already melted down once and is structurally contested heading into an IPO.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
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Traffic was snarled on Interstate 70 and other key arteries because of some combination of vague signage on parking passes or apps, accidents earlier in the afternoon, the lack of dedicated lanes for the bus system — why oh why couldn’t that be achieved in the master plan?—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
17 June 2026
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An overnight traffic crash snarled traffic early Tuesday along Interstate 96 in Livingston County, Michigan.—
Paula Wethington,
CBS News,
16 June 2026
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Dodging rockfall that would’ve cracked my low-hanging differential.—
Josh Rivera,
USA Today,
21 June 2026
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When Jonah was 3, sound asleep in his room at his older sister’s birthday party, bullets from an assault rifle cracked through the windows of Jamon’s house and left holes above his bed.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
21 June 2026
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Though both agree that in real life, Berlant would fit in more easily than Early, who, during a break from the shoot, angered a trio of local Hamptonites merely by using the bathroom at a Citarella.—
Mark Seliger,
Vulture,
22 June 2026
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Though net migration is down, many are angered by migrants entering the country illegally — specifically the sight of people, often escaping war zones such as Afghanistan and Sudan, arriving on British shores in inflatable boats after making the dangerous journey across the English Channel.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 June 2026
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Pinkas said that before the war, Iran was isolated under sanctions that choked its oil exports, dealing blows to its economy.—
Pamela Avila,
CNN Money,
18 June 2026
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The woman who survived the rape described in a jury trial how Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Lawrence Tyler, had punched, choked, and forcibly raped her at his home near Baton Rouge, according to local TV station WBRZ.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
17 June 2026
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Toronto Blue Jays Add Former AL West Outfielder After an American League West division team cut ties with a young outfielder, the Blue Jays quickly snapped him up.—
Peter Chawaga,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
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Neither team scored after López snapped a 1-all tie in the fourth when his line drive rolled to the warning track in right and scored Stowers from first.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 June 2026
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One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.—
Richard Tribou,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 June 2026
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While the boys blew up our air mattresses, the horses milled around at the edge of the river.—
Dolores Brown,
Outdoor Life,
17 June 2026
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Although Brown was absent from Howe’s lyrics, his specter glared from between the lines, apocalyptic and militant.—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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The two-time Masters champion spun, glared at the spectator, grumbled under his breath and seemed to point out the person to security.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
18 May 2026
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“Flipped (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped%20%28out%29. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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