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Dangerously fast
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breakneck
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Word definitions for breakneck in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a breakneck pace (= extremely fast ) ▪ Singapore prospered and modernized at a breakneck pace. at breakneck speed (= very quickly ) ▪ He drove away at breakneck speed. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN pace ▪ Cirrus, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather. n. 1 A fall that breaks the neck. 2 A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used of speed; "a breakneck pace"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breakneck \Break"neck`\, a. Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "likely to end in a broken neck," from break (v.) + neck (n.).
Usage examples of breakneck.
It was urgent---a matter of extreme urgency, a royal summons, his very words: official business and no questions asked---lights in the stable-yard, saddle up and off headlong and hotfoot across the land, our guides outstripped in breakneck pursuit of our duty!
I was about three hours on the way, and in this short time I was overtaken every minute by at least two hundred couriers riding at a breakneck pace.
Heralds and trainees were boiling out of the Palace like aroused fire ants, rendezvousing with their Companions, and heading across the river at breakneck speed.
The knight saluted as if compelled against his will, and thundered down the hill at breakneck pace.
Mercilessly driving the poor beast that drew our carriage, I realized after several hours of breakneck galloping that he would never survive the trip at this pace.
Lotus, spray paint cars, toss eggs, take off with a three-year-old and joyride at breakneck speeds, and you never get punished.
She remembers hearing a collective gasp from the group, then felt her own heart begin to beat at a breakneck pace.
The great iron engines with more power than hundreds of horses would carry tons of goods or scores of people at breakneck speeds from city to city without resting.
Smoit clapped heels to his horse and charged forward, making no attempt to hold to any pathway, dashing at breakneck speed through bramble and thicket.
Nevertheless, benevolent plea-bargaining has continued at a breakneck pace, sometimes with tragic consequences.
Then, like Steele, its driver executed a U, turn and drove at breakneck speed in the opposite direction.
We're about to cover some ground in a breathtaking breakneck gallop as daring as any the world has heard since the plains at Balaklava thundered to the gallant hoofbeats of hopeless heroes.
Las Vegas, Nevada Friday Evening That night in Las Vegas, the whole San Dominican operation continued toward a major blowup at breakneck speed: Great Western Air Transport reestablished contact with the Forlenza F@ly for the first time since Lathrop Wells.
It was the Brungarian sub Conus, and it FISH-HEADED MEN 99 was approaching the Dyna at breakneck speed!
Her legs were trembling, she was dizzy and disoriented, but somehow her feet moved as Grant pulled her through the forest at breakneck speed.