flipped (out)

verb

past tense of flip (out), slang
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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2
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)
  1. melted down
  2. snarled
  3. cracked
  4. angered
  5. choked
  6. snapped
  7. blew up
  8. glared
Verb
  • After the band melted down, Hughes went out on his own, releasing his 1977 solo debut, Play Me Out, the first of more than a dozen solo LPs he’s released.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Ever since the Dodgers dropped a billion-dollar hammer on Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the rest of baseball has melted down.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of melted down
Verb
  • The Broncos, at 4-11, flew back to Denver as a snowstorm snarled travel across the country.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 25 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 snarled
Verb
  • Wood panel in front of the three-compartment sink is not smooth and easily cleanable and container used for butter packets is cracked.
    — NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Jasper Nathaniel, an independent journalist who helped Levine escape the attack, said that Levine also had cracked ribs, and may have been stabbed.
    — Cameron Peters, Vox, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of cracked
Verb
  • The ouster of Bela Bajaria from the role that Rice now occupies was messy, and angered many inside and outside of Netflix.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Cotham, previously a Democrat, switched parties in 2023, a move that gave the GOP a veto-proof supermajority in the state House and angered Democrats across North Carolina.
    — Mary Ramsey, Charlotte Observer, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of angered
Verb
  • The men, or sometimes women, who hit them, pulled their hair or choked them, bruising their throats.
    — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Metal barricades choked the streets as police moved against young demonstrators, beating some, dragging others into buses and chasing away the rest.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of choked
Verb
  • There were big things in antiquity—the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico; the Colossus of Rhodes, which stood at two thirds the height of the Statue of Liberty until an earthquake snapped it at the knees in 226 BCE—but there weren’t many of them.
    — Bill McKibben, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • New York's Alexis Lafrenière had a six-game point streak snapped.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of snapped
Verb
  • Clarkson accused staff at Art of Play in Brooklyn Heights of treating her poorly, which blew up on social media.
    — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Instagram and indie fashion mags blew up, and Cassel started doing profiles.
    — Grace Byron, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of blew up
Verb
  • Still, as the rockets glared and smoke from pre-match pyrotechnics faded, those seats filled quickly.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 18 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of glared
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“Flipped (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flipped%20%28out%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2026.

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