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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tearaway
noun
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▪ I am 20 years old with a one-year-old who is adorable, but a real tearaway.
▪ Past attempts to stop the tearaways have failed because in many cases they have not actually been breaking speed limits.
▪ The 11-year-old tearaway, who has netted £150,000 in the past two years, was nicked after a pub raid.
▪ The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a driver caught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof.
▪ What it says about the young tearaway is even more remarkable.
▪ When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire, he looked the complete tearaway.
Wiktionary
tearaway

n. (context informal chiefly British pejorative English) An impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.

WordNet
tearaway

  1. adj. characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic) [syn: hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainish]

  2. n. a reckless and impetuous person

Wikipedia
Tearaway

Tearaway, tear away, tear-away or variant may refer to:

  • Tearaway Magazine, youth lifestyle magazine
  • Tearaway (video game), a 2013 adventure video game for the PlayStation Vita
    • Tearaway Unfolded, a 2015 expanded remake for the PlayStation 4
  • Tear Away, Drowning Pool nu metal single
  • Tearing Away, death metal song from the fifth studio album of Sadist
  • "Torn Away", short story by Joe R. Lansdale from Twilight Zone: 19 Original Stories on the 50th Anniversary
Tearaway (video game)

Tearaway is a platform– adventure video game developed by LittleBigPlanet developers Media Molecule for the PlayStation Vita. It was announced at Gamescom on 15 August 2012 and released on 20 November 2013 in Australia, on 22 November in Europe, North America and India, and 5 December 2013 in Japan. The game is inspired by papercraft and Rex Crowle's drawings and doodles left around Media Molecule's office.

An expanded remake of the game, titled Tearaway Unfolded, was released for the PlayStation 4 on 8 September 2015.

Usage examples of "tearaway".

Faced with the way some tearaways drive, crossing the road is becoming increasingly hazardous.

Ah wiznae tae breenge about the way Ah always did cos Ah was a right wee tearaway when Ah wiz a wean' - another quick glance at me - 'or Ah'd regret it later.