"go ape" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes ape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going ape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went ape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone ape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> ape"
      },
      "expansion": "go ape (third-person singular simple present goes ape, present participle going ape, simple past went ape, past participle gone ape)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become wildly excited or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_ape-en-verb-eBtzAVKg",
      "links": [
        [
          "wildly",
          "wildly"
        ],
        [
          "excited",
          "excited"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To become wildly excited or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "57 43",
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "go apeshit"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "57 43",
          "word": "go bananas"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eleventh Day: Monday, 13 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "\"Forgot to tell you. Some reporter found out we had a Russkie up here and tried to bluff his way onto the floor. A nurse stopped him. Admiral Blackburn found out and went ape. The whole floor's sealed off. What's the big secret, anyway?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become very angry."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_ape-en-verb-Lwq93sIA",
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To become very angry."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "word": "go ape"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes ape",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going ape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went ape",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone ape",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become wildly excited or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wildly",
          "wildly"
        ],
        [
          "excited",
          "excited"
        ],
        [
          "enthusiastic",
          "enthusiastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To become wildly excited or enthusiastic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eleventh Day: Monday, 13 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, page 267:",
          "text": "\"Forgot to tell you. Some reporter found out we had a Russkie up here and tried to bluff his way onto the floor. A nurse stopped him. Admiral Blackburn found out and went ape. The whole floor's sealed off. What's the big secret, anyway?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become very angry."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "angry",
          "angry"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) To become very angry."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "vulgar"
      ],
      "word": "go apeshit"
    },
    {
      "word": "go bananas"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go ape"
}