go wild
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Verb[edit]
go wild (third-person singular simple present goes wild, present participle going wild, simple past went wild, past participle gone wild)
- To become very noisy and excited.
- Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild!
- (idiomatic, imperative) To go ahead; do as one pleases used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal, especially when the speaker is not interested in the outcome of the proposal.
- (of a ranged weapon shot) To land or pass wildly off-target.
- The policeman's first two shots went wild before he took down the gunman with his third.
Synonyms[edit]
- (in the imperative): go nuts, knock oneself out
Translations[edit]
to become noisy and excited
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to go ahead, do as one pleases — see go nuts