go ballistic

go ballistic
    v 1: get very angry and fly into a rage; "The professor
         combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very
         elementary question"; "Spam makes me go ballistic" [syn:
         {flip one's lid}, {blow up}, {throw a fit}, {hit the roof},
         {hit the ceiling}, {have kittens}, {have a fit}, {combust},
         {blow one's stack}, {fly off the handle}, {flip one's wig},
         {lose one's temper}, {blow a fuse}, {go ballistic}]
    

Ballistic \Bal*lis"tic\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling
      stones or missile weapons by means of an engine.
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   2. Pertaining to ballistics[2], or to a projectile in a
      gravitational field.
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   3. frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase

   {go ballistic}. [Colloq.]
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   {Ballistic pendulum}, an instrument consisting of a mass of
      wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for
      measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means
      of the arc through which their impact impels it.
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