run amuck

English

Verb

run amuck (third-person singular simple present runs amuck, present participle running amuck, simple past ran amuck, past participle run amuck)

  1. Alternative form of run amok.
    • 1854, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Passages from a Relinquished Work”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      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.
    • 1978, “Werewolves of London”, in Warren Zevon, LeRoy Marinell and Waddy Wachtel (music), Excitable Boy, performed by Warren Zevon:
      He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amuck in Kent.
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