FLIPPED (OUT) Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

flipped (out)

verb

past tense of flip (out), slang

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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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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The cartridges were intended to be melted down for gold at a metal recovery service, but the games were never destroyed, Braun told ABC News.

— Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a stretch yarn from polyethylene that is able to be melted down and recycled.

— Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of melted down

Verb

The horns section snarled, the background vocalists riffed, and Olivia picked up multiple instruments herself – the tambourine, guitar, shakers, and the piano.

— Sidney Madden, VIBE.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, the tech industry's multitrillion-dollar spending spree on data centers and AI infrastructure has snarled supply chains.

— Matt Peterson,Kate Rooney, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of snarled

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Inspectors reported seeing rodent droppings, cracked tiles in a shower, a tarp on the roof, a crack in the ceiling, debris and furniture dumped outside.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026
Had Logan Allen not stumbled in his final spring tune-up, Messick might not have cracked the Opening Day roster this season.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of cracked

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The White House had previously angered US ranchers by quadrupling low-tariff imports of Argentine beef to cool prices.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
During a joint practice last summer in Houston, Moehrig decked Texans wide receiver Xavier Hutchinson on a hard but clean hit that angered a few of Hutchinson’s teammates.

— Joseph Person, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of angered

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The blockade choked one of the world’s most important shipping lanes and Iran dictated where the war’s frontline would be, rattling the global economy.

— Justin Fishel, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
Both victims were illegally choked to death by white police officers.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of choked

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The victory snapped a streak that had beguiled the second-year franchise even in the midst of an unprecedented level of success for an expansion team in the WNBA.

— Christian Babcock, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Cramer’s comments Tuesday came shortly after Nvidia snapped a seven-session losing streak, its longest slump since September 2022.

— Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of snapped

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The track, while already fairly widespread, blew up over the summer and has sat at Number One since July 4, for nine consecutive weeks.

— Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026
The track blew up on social media during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and became Eslabón Armado’s first entry on the Billboard charts.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of blew up

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