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gone bananas

gone bananas is the past participle of go bananas.

Meaning of go bananas

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

Questions about gone bananas

What is gone bananas the past participle of?
Gone bananas is the past participle of go bananas.

Words near gone bananas in the dictionary

  1. gone back to the tools
  2. gone backwards
  3. gone bad
  4. gone ballistic
  5. gone balls up
  6. gone bananas
  7. gone bankrupt
  8. gone batshit
  9. gone begging
  10. gone belly-up
  11. gone below

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