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UK
/tˈeəɹəwˌeɪ/
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ADJECTIVE
-
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
an impetuous display of spending and gambling
a hotheaded decision
madcap escapades
liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers
NOUN
- a reckless and impetuous person
How To Use tearaway In A Sentence
- And she blames her tearaway teenage years for standing in the way of her intellectual ambitions. The Sun
- He entered Hughes' gym where he trains some of the best young fighters, and biggest tearaways, in the country.
- He blamed lack of parental control for the young tearaways' behaviour.
- Something of a tearaway when he was younger, Dettori has now adopted a squeaky-clean image as devoted family man - wife Catherine is expecting their fifth child.
- He's a product of workaday south London and was a bit of a tearaway in his younger days.
- Richmal Crompton's famous stories of high-spirited tearaway William Brown were first adapted for television in a 1951 BBC play starring Robert Sandford.
- A bail hostel may begin as no more than temporary accommodation for young tearaways, but becomes, in the course of time, housing for dangerous criminals.
- You're a young tearaway and you want something fun? Times, Sunday Times
- The young Reyes nonetheless had plenty of the tearaway in him when he started training with Sevilla at the age of nine.
- It turns out she and her tearaway sons are the new tenants at his house. The Sun