"blow one's top" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-blow one's top.ogg Forms: blows one's top [present, singular, third-person], blowing one's top [participle, present], blew one's top [past], blown one's top [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|blow<,,blew,blown> one's top}} blow one's top (third-person singular simple present blows one's top, present participle blowing one's top, simple past blew one's top, past participle blown one's top)
  1. (slang, figurative) To become explosively angry; to lose one's temper. Tags: figuratively, slang Categories (topical): Anger Synonyms: go ape, go apeshit, hit the roof, hit the ceiling, lose it, lose one's rag, lose one's temper, pop one's cork, blow one's lid, blow one's stack
    Sense id: en-blow_one's_top-en-verb-ahELBx0j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English predicates, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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