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gone wild

gone wild is the past participle 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 gone wild

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

Words near gone wild in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gone 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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