flipping (out)

verb

Definition of flipping (out)next
present participle of flip (out), slang
1
as in losing 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 having 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 flipping (out)
  1. choking
  2. angering
  3. glaring
Verb
  • Armed with that information, off-roading is a lot less likely to be marred by choking, toxic smoke that comes along with dangerous levels of combustion if users know which areas to avoid.
    Kristin Shaw, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
  • The trial of Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran charged in the May 2023 choking death of a homeless man in a New York City subway car, is set to begin Monday with jury selection.
    Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2024
Definition of choking
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  • This is exemplified by the ways in which people were tying themselves in knots to appropriately grieve Payne’s death without angering anyone critical of his alleged behavior.
    Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Google Chrome has started to remove ad blockers that don’t support its new Manifest V3 initiative, angering some users of the privacy preserving technology.
    Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of angering
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  • In fact, the film’s problems are so glaring that one can’t help but wonder about what happened behind the scenes.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • This is why the Tolkien estate closely guarded its intellectual property for so long, and serves now as glaring evidence of the kind of creative malpractice its former stewards were concerned about.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of glaring
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“Flipping (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipping%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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