"flip one's wig" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-flip one's wig.ogg [Australia] Forms: flips one's wig [present, singular, third-person], flipping one's wig [participle, present], flipped one's wig [participle, past], flipped one's wig [past]
Etymology: A variation of flip one's lid. Etymology templates: {{m|en|flip one's lid}} flip one's lid Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} flip one's wig (third-person singular simple present flips one's wig, present participle flipping one's wig, simple past and past participle flipped one's wig)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To become very angry. Tags: idiomatic, informal Categories (topical): Anger Synonyms: flip one's lid, flip out, lose one's temper, blow one's top, blow a gasket
    Sense id: en-flip_one's_wig-en-verb-Lwq93sIA Disambiguation of Anger: 53 47
  2. (idiomatic, informal) To act in an irrational manner or appear to be temporarily insane. Tags: idiomatic, informal Categories (topical): Anger Synonyms: go bananas, go nuts, go ape, go off the deep end
    Sense id: en-flip_one's_wig-en-verb-mVwP6F5J Disambiguation of Anger: 53 47 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 15 85 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 14 86 Disambiguation of English predicates: 44 56 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 19 81

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