tearaway

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Noun	1.	tearaway - a reckless and impetuous person Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom daredevil, harum-scarum, madcap, swashbuckler, hothead, lunatic - a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
Adj.	1.	tearaway - 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) brainish, impetuous, madcap, hotheaded, impulsive archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression incautious - lacking in caution; "an incautious remark"; "incautious talk"

tearaway

noun (Brit.) hooligan, delinquent, tough, rough (informal), rowdy, ruffian, roughneck (slang), good-for-nothing He blamed the parents for the tearaways' behaviour.

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impetuoso teppista

tearaway

[ˈtɛərəweɪ] N (Brit) → gamberro/a m/f, alborotador(a) m/f

tearaway

[ˈtɛərəweɪ] n → casse-cou m inv

tearaway

n (Brit inf) → Rabauke m (inf); I used to be a bit of a tearaway → ich war ein ziemlicher Rabauke (inf)

tearaway

[ˈtɛərəˌweɪ] n (Brit) (fam) → ragazzaccio

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A NEW TV show is to try to put tearaway teenagers back on track - by teaching them ballroom dancing.

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In todays episode, family loyalties are stretched to breaking point when a young tearaway is forced to choose between saving his brother and freedom.

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Instead, he''s being forced to tolerate a holiday on the East Coast with his mother Pam (Toni Collette), her new boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell) and Trent''s tearaway teenage daughter Steph (Zoe Levin).

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009: Marie Durham's tearaway teenage sons start living in a tent on the other side of the road to the Engel Street house.

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Scots actor Richard Wilson revealed he was a tearaway who loved playing endless games of football on the streets of his home town of Greenock.

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Val and Eric knew Amy was a bit of a handful when they agreed to foster her, but this week it becomes clear just how much of a tearaway she can be as she sets her sights on not one but two older men.

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TEARAWAY JOHN looks the value in tonight's pounds 10,000 John Smith's Peterborough Derby final over 420m (10.

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Jennifer Ellison has come a long way since she first appeared on our screens as a tearaway teenager in Brookside.

Jennifer Ellison has come a long way

I was a bit of a tearaway as a youngster," he said.

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With a tearaway son, a demanding father in a nursing home and the family's ailing dry-cleaning business, his hands are full but his heart is not in it.