Definition of blowing a gasket

blow a gasket    

verb - intransitive

• to be extremely angry.

  Dad blew a gasket when I got suspended from school.

  • See more words with the same meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out.

  Last edited on Apr 13 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'to become angry, go crazy, freak out':
conniption	Definitions include: a bad tantrum.
spaz	Definitions include: a person who often acts in an irrational or spontaneous fashion.
epi	Definitions include: "epileptic fit".
Hershey squirt	Definitions include: to become nervous; "freak out".
lose (one's) head	Definitions include: to become extremely angry.
trip	Definitions include: to take LSD.
go bonkers	Definitions include: to go crazy.
get (one's) knickers in a twist	Definitions include: to become angry about something that the speaker doesn't think is worthy.
get postal	Definitions include: to get violent, to go crazy.
go vector compound	Definitions include: to go on a murderous rampage after having society's pressure build on you.
get the b*tch on	Definitions include: to become angry at and yell (that is, to "bitch") at someone.
freak out	Definitions include: to react with extreme emotion.
hack off	Definitions include: to make a person angry.
lose (one's) sh*t	Definitions include: to lose one's composure.
go off the deep end	Definitions include: to go crazy.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'a':
a	Definitions include: amphetamine.
A-1	Definitions include: the best.
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
a bit much	Definitions include: excessive.
a bit of how's your father	Definitions include: sexual activity.
a boat	Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat".
a couple beers short of a six-pack	Definitions include: a little crazy
a couple three	Definitions include: an unspecified small number.
act a fool	Definitions include: to play around.
a dime a dozen	Definitions include: very common.
a dog with two d*cks	Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
a dollar three eighty	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
a dollar three eightyfive	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
adopt a tree	Definitions include: to collide with a tree.
a face that only a mother could love	Definitions include: an ugly face.
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Other terms relating to 'blow':
all blowed out	Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched.
blow	Definitions include: to be of poor quality, displeasing.
blow a fuse	Definitions include: to lose one's temper.
blow *ss	Definitions include: to flatulate; "fart.
blow away	Definitions include: to kill, usually with a firearm.
blow chunks	Definitions include: to vomit.
blow doors	Definitions include: to be at the peak (blowing up) of one's "roll" on ecstasy (MDMA).
blower	Definitions include: a person or object that erred.
blow groceries	Definitions include: to vomit.
blow hot and cold	Definitions include: to vacillate in opinion
blow it	Definitions include: to completely fail a task.
blow-job	Definitions include: Alternate spelling of blowjob.
blow me	Definitions include: an angry retort; "bite me".
blow mud	Definitions include: to defecate, usually diarrhea.
blow off	Definitions include: to ignore another person(s) in a rude manner.
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Other terms relating to 'gasket':
*ss gasket	Definitions include: a paper toilet seat cover, as found in many public restrooms.

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