tearawaynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈteə.rə.weɪ/us/ˈter.ə.weɪ/UK informala young person, usually male, who behaves in an uncontrolled way and is often causing trouble:
He was a real tearaway at school - he was always in trouble with teachers or with the police.
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Uncontrolled
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- amok
- amuck
- cut loose idiom
- extravagant
- intemperate
- like mad idiom
- mad
- maniacal
- out of hand idiom
- rampant
- raw
- spin
- spiral
- spread like wildfire idiom
- unbridled
- unchecked
- uncontrollable
- unmanageable
- wildfire
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