flips (out)

verb

present tense third-person singular of flip (out), slang
1
as in loses 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 has 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 flips (out)
  1. melts down
  2. snarls
  3. cracks
  4. snaps
  5. breaks down
  6. angers
  7. chokes
  8. blows up
Verb
  • Parents won't spend the day pushing strollers across sprawling pathways trying to cover ground before someone melts down.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
  • The wedding — and especially Cassie and Nate’s dance, as Cassie melts down on the day she’s spent her life dreaming of, having learned about the deep financial hole Nate is in — must have felt especially layered.
    — Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 10 June 2026
Definition of melts down
Verb
  • Day to day, as the city grows, there’s also the question of traffic, which snarls the city as public transit initiatives have repeatedly struggled.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
  • Security snarls The TSA PreCheck line at terminal B in LaGuardia Airport in East Elmhurst, Queens, New York City, on March 27, 2026.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2026
Definition of snarls
Verb
  • Anger When denial finally cracks, the energy that follows goes one of two directions.
    — Tim Albright, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Holmes deduces that each pose represents a letter and cracks the code by matching the most common poses with the most common letters.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
Definition of cracks
Verb
  • Fiction also has the ability to show how language snaps under the weight of violence, how trauma ruptures the very meaning of words.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • David Beckham snaps a portrait at an event for his podcast EA SPORTS Presents Icons of Football in New York City.
    — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026
Definition of snaps
Verb
  • Below, Variety breaks down the contenders in a few major categories.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 24 July 2026
  • The book breaks down the steps to behavioral change into small, consistent actions that can lead to meaningful results.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of breaks down
Verb
  • According to the myth, Agamemnon angers the goddess Artemis by killing one of her sacred deer.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
  • Lai, who won election two years ago, and his ruling DPP champion Taiwan’s separate identity from China, a position ​that frequently angers Beijing, which views the island as an inviolable part of Chinese territory.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 19 July 2026
Definition of angers
Verb
  • Remove chokes from artichokes and steam in small amount of water for 15 minutes, adding water to pan as needed.
    — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • Connecticut’s largest cities also struggle with the state’s highest property tax rates, which chokes business growth and, in turn, shifts more burden onto residential owners.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2026
Definition of chokes
Verb
  • Sharma’s unenviable job is to trim the fat before this whole thing blows up.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • Walter recommends that budding creators parse through their analytics when a video blows up—and warns not to pop the champagne too fast.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
Definition of blows up
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