go wild

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

go wild (third-person singular simple present goes wild, present participle going wild, simple past went wild, past participle gone wild)

1. To become very noisy and excited.

   Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild!

2. (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.

Synonyms

• (in the imperative): go nuts, knock oneself out

Translations

to become noisy and excited

• Bulgarian: буйствам (bg) (bujstvam)
• Finnish: villiintyä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

to go ahead, do as one pleases — see go nuts