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go bananas

go bananas verb: to get angry; to go mad.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To get angry; to go mad.
    • I just told her she couldn’t have any pudding until after dinner, and she went bananas!
  2. (idiomatic, informal) To become silly or excited; to go crazy.
    • The music was going bananas with immensity at this point.1982 August, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; 3), London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 49
    • As my colleague Glenn MacDonald, an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told me when I asked him if all these tech companies had gone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.”2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic

go bananas meaning in Tamil

go bananas in Tamil

கடுங்கோபம் கொள்தல்

Synonyms of go bananas

Forms of go bananas

third-person singular presentgoes bananas
present participlegoing bananas
pastwent bananas
past participlegone bananas

Origin of go bananas

From bananas (“crazy”).

Questions about go bananas

What does go bananas mean?
Go bananas means to get angry; to go mad.
What is go bananas in Tamil?
Go bananas in Tamil is கடுங்கோபம் கொள்தல். See Go bananas meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is go bananas?
Go bananas is a verb.
What is the past tense of go bananas?
The past tense of go bananas is went bananas.

Words near go bananas in the dictionary

  1. go bag
  2. go bags
  3. go bail
  4. go ballistic
  5. go balls up
  6. go bananas
  7. go band for band
  8. go bankrupt
  9. go batshit
  10. go begging
  11. go belly-up

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