tearaway

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(informal) a young person who is difficult to control and often does stupid, dangerous and/or illegal things

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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.

Same word in other sources

tearawayEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus tearawayEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Is tearaway a noun, verb, or something else?

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