go wild

English

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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.
3. (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

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

Translations

to become noisy and excited

• Bulgarian: буйствам (bg) (bujstvam)
• Finnish: villiintyä (fi)

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