Idioms

go bonkers

go bonkers

1. To be or become wild, restless, irrational, or crazy; to act in such a way. The drivers in this country seem to go completely bonkers if there's even a little bit of snow on the ground. Don't give the kids too much sugar or they'll end up going bonkers! We thought taking our family vacation in a tiny cottage out in the country would be a nice break from city life, but we all went a bit bonkers after a few days.
2. To be or become very angry or upset. My parents went bonkers when they found out I'd taken the car without asking. Now, don't go bonkers or anything, but I've decided to move to Canada. You broke her prized antique vase? Oh yeah, she's definitely gonna go bonkers!
3. To be or become extremely excited or enthusiastic (about something). I've never understood that pop star's popularity, but kids just go bonkers for her music. Everyone I know has gone bonkers over the new Roboformers movie—they say the special effects are really incredible. Tomorrow's our last day of school, and I'm already going bonkers over it!
See also: bonkers, go
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Sue Winstanley, club manager at Mecca Telford, said: "The people of Telford genuinely go bonkers for bingo, which is why this is the ultimate night out.
Carly McClure, operations manager at Mecca Paisley, said: "This event is the ultimate night out - people genuinely go bonkers for bingo.
Seeing the crowd turn out, it was clear that Raghunath and many like him will have to slog another day for a selfie but for now, the sight of Tendulkar in itself was enough for them to go bonkers.
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They've done it up nicely, but in the restaurant someone let the designer go bonkers.
"Once you have a problem like that in England, you will not need to go bonkers for anybody."
"Even a player like Arteta doesn't get called up for Spain and once you have a problem like that in England, you will not need to go bonkers for anybody."
EISTEDDFOD officials are encouraging people to "go bonkers for bunting!" ahead of the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.
Norman Jay (left), and Massive Attack (below), will be performing during the Big Chill Weekender Expect the crowd to go bonkers when Dizzee Rascal performs Faithless will be back at this year's GlobalGathering
Ending with an encore of Blinded by the Lights he instructed an obliging audience to crouch down low then go bonkers with the increasing tempo of the song.
But for me there is one fundamental reason why I am making the real effort to drag my new fiance the wrong way up the M62 this weekend, and that''s to go Bonkers with the very in best British rap music.
Youngsters can try out a number of sports on Monday at the Cowbridge centre, go bonkers for badminton on Tuesday and enjoy a rugby fun day on Wednesday.
Why people go bonkers REMEMBER the last time you went stark raving bonkers?
On December 31, the world will go bonkers celebrating what many people believe to be' the new millennium.
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