To completely lose it — either in wild excitement or full-scale rage. Go ape captures that moment when someone abandons all pretense of composed human behavior and goes full primal: jumping around with joy, screaming with enthusiasm, or erupting in fury depending on the context. The phrase evokes the uninhibited physicality of a primate let loose, and it works perfectly for describing fans at a concert, parents at a kid's game, or anyone pushed past their limit.
The crowd went ape when the band came back for an encore nobody expected — it was absolute chaos.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) To become wildly excited or enthusiastic.
“I'm gonna ask a question and I need you guys not to go ape shit on me. If people have been theorizing for years that Peach and Rosalina were related... Then why are they so mad that they became sisters in the film”
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(slang) To become very angry.
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