run amuck

present singular third person runs amuck · participle present running amuck · past ran amuck

1. alternativeAlternative form of run amok.

   He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.

   1978, “Werewolves of London”, in Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel (music), Excitable Boy, performed by Warren Zevon

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   This event would have looked most horrible in anticipation,—a thing to make a man shoot himself, or run amuck, or hide himself in caverns where he might not see his own burning blush; but the reality was not so very hard to bear.

   1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse