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flipped one's lid

flipped one's lid is the simple past and past participle of flip one's lid.

Meaning of flip one's lid

Verb

flip one's lid (third-person singular simple present flips one's lid, present participle flipping one's lid, simple past and past participle flipped one's lid)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To become explosively angry, to lose one's temper.
    • Wait, you'll see. Three hours on a night like this is enough to make you flip your lid.1948, Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, New York; Toronto: Rinehart & Company, page 113

Questions about flipped one's lid

What is flipped one's lid the simple past and past participle of?
Flipped one's lid is the simple past and past participle of flip one's lid.

Words near flipped one's lid in the dictionary

  1. flipped classrooms
  2. flipped learning
  3. flipped mastery
  4. flipped off
  5. flipped on its head
  6. flipped one's lid
  7. flipped one's shit
  8. flipped one's wig
  9. flipped out
  10. flipped over
  11. flipped shit

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