1 with the head first and the rest of the body following:
She fell headlong into the icy pool.
2 without thinking carefully before doing sth:
The government is taking care not to rush headlong into another controversy.
3 quickly and without looking where you are going:
He ran headlong into a police car.
headlong adjective [onlybeforenoun]:
a headlong dive / rush
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for headlong is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is headlong a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, headlong is tagged as adverb.
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