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wild out en · VERB

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1. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) To react overly enthusiastically or aggressively, especially if sudden.
   • When she heard the rumor, she just started wilding out!
   • Josh then say, “Jarmen be wilding out, and I know he be on that powder”!. 2017, Ashley, Never Judge a Book by Its Cover, →ISBN:
   • Your baby-mama will not wild out if you make sure she's straight and she's comfortable. 2006, King Magazine, page 85:
   • I shook my head at him to let him know not to wild out on her. 2012, Monique Grant, Imperfect Angel, →ISBN, page 40:
   • As young people living and loving Christ, we should not wild out at the clubs, pour up the Hennessey, or smoke those drugs. 2017, BraRysheyia Simpson, Chosen, →ISBN:
   • To make me grin from ear to ear or chase the gratyness from any day when I'm upset he says “Listen it is okay to cry” and “When you're mad it's alright to wild out, don't hold anything inside” 2011, Ms.Ly.Ric, Frozen in Time: A Collection of My Thoughts, →ISBN, page 69:
2. (intransitive, slang) To stop behaving in a civilized way; to rebel against one's cultural mores.
   • I'd hate to have to wild out up in this camp. I check my lips to make sure they are nice and glossy and that my hair looks good before I get out and go inside. 2011, Anna J., My Little Secret, →ISBN, page 137:
   • 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:
   • At this point in my life, I was receiving so many beatings between my grandma and mom that I became immune. I was slowly beginning to wild out, not follow any of the rules, roll my eyes, smack my lips and even take up for myself sometimes. 2010, Angel Bartlett, Wounded, But Not Broken: The Life of a Therapeutic Foster Child, →ISBN:

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