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go bal·lis·tic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. flip one's lid, blow up, throw a fit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, have kittens, have a fit, combust, blow one's stack, fly off the handle, flip one's wig, lose one's temper, blow a fuse, go ballisticverb

    get very angry and fly into a rage

    "The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic"

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  1. go ballisticverb

    To become very angry and irrational.

Wikipedia

  1. Go Ballistic

    Go Ballistic is the first CD release by Ipswich ska band, The Ballistics.

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  1. Go Ballistic

    Go Ballistic is the first CD release by Ipswich ska band, The Ballistics.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of go ballistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of go ballistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of go ballistic in a Sentence

  1. Ankit Panda:

    This, to my eye, is the submarine that the U.S. intelligence community has been calling the Sinpo-C, a successor to North Korea's only known ballistic missile submarine.

  2. Marie Harf:

    Any satellite launch that uses ballistic missile technology would be a violation of multiple Security Council resolutions that require North Korea to suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program.

  3. John Bolton:

    The president has held the door open to real negotiations to completely and verifiably eliminate Iran's nuclear weapons program, its ballistic missile delivery systems, its support for international terrorism and other malign behavior worldwide, all that Iran needs to do is to walk through that open door.

  4. Frank Rose:

    Iran continues to develop, test and deploy a full range of ballistic missile capabilities and those capabilities are increasing in range and accuracy.

  5. John Blaxland:

    Australia’s got nervous. We’ve seen the armed forces of China expand – the army, navy, air force, space force, cyber force [and] ballistic missile force, have all expanded exponentially in the last few years dramatically raising concerns about what that means for the security of Australia, a decade ago, this would have been unimaginable. But the changes in China, the wolf warrior diplomacy, President Xi’s own actions have generated a wake up call in Australia, the US, the UK and beyond. That’s why we’re seeing the fruits of today.


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