breakneck
Adjective
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Adjective
breakneck
- Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
- He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.
- German: halsbrecherisch
- Italian: all'impazzata, a rotta di collo, a rompicollo
- Spanish: a toda carrera, a tumba abierta, como alma que lleva el diablo, disparado, como relámpago, a toda leche (Spain), a toda ostia (Spain), a todo vapor, a velocidad de vértigo, a toda máquina, a toda pastilla
breakneck (plural breaknecks)
- A fall that breaks the neck.
- A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.
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