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go bananas en · VERB

Pronunciation

Etymology

From bananas (“crazy”).

Meanings

  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.
    • As my colleague Glenn MacDonald, an economics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, told me when I asked him if all these tech companies had gone bananas, “It all depends on how you think about risk aversion.” 2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic:
    • 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
going bananas Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went bananas Tense=Past lexicographic
gone bananas Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
goes bananas Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

go nuts · go ape

Translations (10)

sv kuka ur (get angry) · da gå bananas (become very excited) · sv gå bananas (become very excited) · da gå agurk (get angry) · sv gå i taket (get angry) · nn gå bananas (become very excited) · sv få psykbryt (get angry) · sv bli tokig (get angry) · sv få tuppjuck (get angry) · nb gå bananas (become very excited)