Table-flipping Edit Meaning

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Event characterized by a melodramatic gesture at the explosive end of extreme frustration, anger or resignation in which a hothead literally flips a table. Used to indicate that the flipper is ill-equipped to continue rationally, has lost his/her cool, and will no linger sit at, or come to, said table.

After losing his umpteenth hand at poker, and an hour of watching his girlfriend start flirting with the guy winning, Bruce literally lost his chips and resorted to table-flipping.

See lose it, go apeshit, flip out, freak out, have a cow, explode, lose face, give up