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run amok
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run amok and run amuck
to go awry; to go bad; to turn bad; to go into a frenzy. (From a Malay word meaning to run wild in a violent frenzy.) Our plan ran amok. He ran amuck early in the school year and never quite got back on the track.
See also: run

run amok
to act in a wild or dangerous manner There were 50 little kids running amok at the snack bar.
See also: run


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