go ballistic

Verb

Synonyms: flip one's lid blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust blow one's stack fly off the handle flip one's wig lose one's temper

WordNet 3.0

Verb (1)

get very angry and fly into a rage“The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question”“Spam makes me go ballistic”Synonyms: flip one's lid blow up throw a fit hit the roof hit the ceiling have kittens have a fit combust blow one's stack fly off the handle flip one's wig lose one's temper blow a fuse go ballistic

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Ballistic \Bal*lis"tic\, a.

1.Of or pertaining to the ballista, or to the art of hurling stones or missile weapons by means of an engine. [1913 Webster]

2.Pertaining to ballistics[2], or to a projectile in a gravitational field. [1913 Webster +PJC]

3.frenzied; very angry; -- used mostly in the phrase

go ballistic. [Colloq.] [PJC]

Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it. [1913 Webster]