run wild

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

1. (idiomatic) To go unchecked; to be out of control.
   • 2015 March 3, Noah Feldshuh, Casey Harris, Adam Levin, Samuel Harris, Alexander Grant, “Renegades”, in VHS‎^[1], performed by X Ambassadors:

     Run away with me
     Lost souls in revelry (hey)
     Running wild and running free
     Two kids, you and me (hey)

2. (prison slang, of prison sentences) To run consecutively.

• run rampant