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Meanings of tearaway in English

Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish' is archaic)

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Usage of tearaway in English
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By now I was a real tearaway and was experimenting with drugs.
A Gift from Bob
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Is it true that he became a bit of a tearaway after Titanic?
The Guardian
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When Noel Edmonds was a youngster, he was actually a tearaway.
The Guardian
4
The stripper with the tearaway suit showed up as one of their applicants.
The Guardian
5
What else would an Anglo Irish tearaway on a horse shout in 1901?
The Irish Times
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He had asked her about her childhood, her mother, her tearaway teenage years.
Babyville
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When Shoes of Prey launched in 2009, it became a tearaway success almost immediately.
News.com.au
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But the sapphire-eyed tearaway always preferred to believe his initial mewling took place in Galway.
The Irish Times
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And he was very confused when they told him not to remove his tearaway tuxedo.
The Guardian
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As a 14-year-old tearaway, he boarded the ill-starred vessel.
The Irish Times
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Politeness was hard-learned knowledge for a street-reared tearaway kid.
The Guardian
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And I do believe our idiot tearaway here has got you on the wrong message.
The Atrocity Archives
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His tearaway days behind him, the Blur survivor is still rocking, still writing and still standing.
The Irish Times
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He's a cocksure tearaway made good, but he's also a little less laconic than the Italian assassin.
The Guardian
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Brian Woodward recalls: Stephen was a tearaway.
The Guardian
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One of these radicals was Andreas Baader, an unstable tearaway with devastating charisma and a taste for violence.
The Guardian
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