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A culture specific syndrome from Malay involving acute indiscriminate homicidal mania first noted in the 17th century and now seen on psychiatry shelf exams. Used in American vernacular to connote aggressive, uncontrolled behavior.
The man from Southeast Asia ran amok after taking the psychiatry exam, killing three other med students with his sharpened number two pencil.
amok by petronas April 14, 2006
Related Words
amok a-mock: an aggresive activity tends to ruin everything.
This word comes from southeast asian language, bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) :
amuk(verb),meng-amuk
that drunken guy run amok
amok by kidar December 16, 2003
A term used to describe Ron Paul, a GOP Presidential candidate from Texas.
Ron Paul runs amok towards his fellow 2012 GOP presidential contenders (Santorum, Romney, Newt).

Ron Paul runs amok.

The old man runs amok.
Amok by Costello MD July 13, 2012
Used if you cant be bothed to put spaces in between "am ok". Can be used to greet
dude A:hows you?
dude B:Amok!
dude A: gdgd
amok by dnh500 November 18, 2005
a girl called liv who is small like chelsea and will prob always be 5,3 like chelsea

will never meet jack avery but that’s okay she can dream

will never go out with beep cos He likes a popular girl who looks nothing like liv and is way prettier than liv
joe: omfg what was that?
jai: oh that was just liv the amok
amok by BabyDaddyAvery May 12, 2019
...and I heard tales of him jumping into fountains naked, going amok in the Orient
amok by GPC70 August 22, 2017