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run amuck en · VERB
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of run amok.
He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.
1978, “Werewolves of London”, in Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel (music), Excitable Boy, performed by Warren Zevon:This event would have looked most horrible in anticipation,—a thing to make a man shoot himself, or run amuck, or hide himself in caverns where he might not see his own burning blush; but the reality was not so very hard to bear.
1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
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