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Go crazy and take four bananas (5,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

freak out

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'go crazy' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with human feelings as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'take four bananas' is the wordplay.
'bananas' is an anagram indicator (informal term for mad).
'take'+'four'='takefour'
'takefour' anagrammed gives 'FREAK-OUT'.

'and' is the link.

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(Other definitions for freak out that I've seen before include "Lose emotional control" , "Lose one's nerve" , "Get into a heightened emotional state" , "React wildly and irrationally" , "Behave irrationally" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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