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wigged (out)

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verb

past tense of wig (out), slang
as in cracked
to yield to mental or emotional stress with her claustrophobia, it wouldn't take a day for her to wig out on a submarine

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Adjective
  • Prosecutors say Flynn staged a home invasion to mislead investigators and claimed in a frantic 911 call that a burglar had shot his wife.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Groh recommends booking a scan out of raw curiosity rather than a frantic search for safety.
    — Cheryl Fenton, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Bottle tops popped, can tabs cracked, and cocktail shakers shook all day Thursday at the Aftershock music festival at Sacramento’s Discovery Park.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Burkhard cracked open a fortune cookie and tears began to well up.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • An hysterical soldier shoots him, Rennie is carried to Walter Reed Hospital.
    — THR Staff, HollywoodReporter, 28 Sep. 2026
  • This hysterical comedy by writer-director Jesse Eisenberg has deep affection for artists clinging to the bottom rung of showbiz.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • Some distraught users took to social media to express their alarm at how the AI agent, which required masses of personal data to operate without detailed instructions, had a habit of going rogue.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Andrew offers his distraught daughter little sympathy, and from that moment, a murder plot begins to take shape.
    — Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The woman denied the allegations, and Ross hit her in the chest several times, the report says, and choked her, restricting her breathing by twisting the collar of her hoodie.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Some were also choked — images jurors were shown by both the defense and the prosecution.
    — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Challenged on all sides, Hansen finds that his only recourse is to throw himself, with ever more frenzied self-seriousness, into his work.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026
  • He was supposed to set pay levels for executives of those large companies that took bailouts during the bailout-frenzied days of the Great Recession.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • These moments pile up and ultimately converge, paying heartwarming tribute to how even the most monomaniacal movie projects necessitate collaboration.
    — Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 3 Sep. 2026
  • When Ahab first speaks to the crew about Moby Dick, his diabolical charisma soon infects the men who, apart from Starbuck, enthusiastically join him in his monomaniacal crusade.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
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“Wigged-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wigged-out. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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