go wilding

Idioms  

1. Also, go out wilding. Go on a rampage, as in The convention delegates have arrived in town, and after deliberating all day they are ready to go out wilding at night. This term originally referred to teenage gang violence directed against randomly chosen victims, impulsive mugging or rape, and similar terrorizing. It also has been transferred to unruly but less violent outings, as in the example. [1980s]

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Example Sentences

“When you see crimes with a Black victim go down, you are seeing the impact of changes in social class. If you are an accountant, you don’t have time to go wilding in the streets.”

From Washington Times

Among the postmodern cohort, Valérie Belin is represented by a large grisaille portrait of a beautiful mannequin that, while fake, looks alive; Shirana Shahbazi isolates a taxidermic bird in flight on a solid red ground for even greater ambiguity; and Mariah Robertson, who seems to go wilding in the darkroom, making splattered, cracked, richly colored image fragments descended from Rauschenberg.

From New York Times

And if they get that idle spark, they'll go wilding.

From Time Magazine Archive