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goes wild

goes wild is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go wild.

Meaning of go wild

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To become very noisy and excited.
    • Brazil scored, and the crowd went wild!
    Antonyms:
    go mild
  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. To land or pass wildly off-target.
    • The policeman's first two shots went wild before he took down the gunman with his third.

Questions about goes wild

What is goes wild the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Goes wild is the third-person singular simple present indicative of go wild.

Words near goes wild in the dictionary

  1. goes west
  2. goes whacks
  3. goes whistle
  4. goes whole hog
  5. goes wide
  6. goes wild
  7. goes with
  8. goes with a swing
  9. goes with one's gut
  10. goes with the flow
  11. goes with the flow of traffic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: goes wild (page history and authors); go wild (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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