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wilding out

wilding out is the present participle and gerund of wild out.

Meaning of wild out

Verb

wild out (third-person singular simple present wilds out, present participle wilding out, simple past and past participle wilded out)

  1. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular) To react overly enthusiastically or aggressively, especially if sudden.
    • When she heard the rumor, she just started wilding out!
  2. (intransitive, slang) To stop behaving in a civilized way; to rebel against one's cultural mores.
    • I was just wilding out. But even though I was a rebel kid, I was focused in school. I was an honor student. It was weird.2006, Latina - Volume 11, page 469

Questions about wilding out

What is wilding out the present participle and gerund of?
Wilding out is the present participle and gerund of wild out.

Words near wilding out in the dictionary

  1. wildie
  2. wildies
  3. wildin'
  4. wildin' out
  5. wilding
  6. wilding out
  7. wildings
  8. wildish
  9. wildishly
  10. wildishness
  11. wildland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilding out (page history and authors); wild out (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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