Usually means: Become extremely angry or furious.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. go ballistic: Merriam-Webster
  2. go ballistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go ballistic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go ballistic: Vocabulary.com
  5. go ballistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. go ballistic: Wiktionary
  7. go ballistic: Dictionary.com
  8. go ballistic: Rhymezone
  9. go ballistic: FreeDictionary.org
  10. go ballistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. go ballistic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. go ballistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go ballistic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. go ballistic: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. go ballistic: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. Go ballistic: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (go ballistic)

verb:  (idiomatic) To become very angry and irrational.
verb:  (aerospace) for a usually rocket-powered, predominantly non-glide projectile or aerial vehicle, such as a ballistic missile, to travel to its target partly via unpowered ballistic or quasi-ballistic flight, usually following burnout of its rocket motor
verb:  (military, slang) for a powered, usually guided missile or other aerial vehicle to travel on an unguided or ballistic trajectory, having lost power, control or guidance

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