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go wilding
Idioms and Phrases
Also, go out wilding . Go on a rampage, as in The convention delegates have arrived in town, and after deliberating all day they are ready to go out wilding at night . This term originally referred to teenage gang violence directed against randomly chosen victims, impulsive mugging or rape, and similar terrorizing. It also has been transferred to unruly but less violent outings, as in the example. [1980s]Example Sentences
“When you see crimes with a Black victim go down, you are seeing the impact of changes in social class. If you are an accountant, you don’t have time to go wilding in the streets.â€
Among the postmodern cohort, Valérie Belin is represented by a large grisaille portrait of a beautiful mannequin that, while fake, looks alive; Shirana Shahbazi isolates a taxidermic bird in flight on a solid red ground for even greater ambiguity; and Mariah Robertson, who seems to go wilding in the darkroom, making splattered, cracked, richly colored image fragments descended from Rauschenberg.
And if they get that idle spark, they'll go wilding.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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