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like the devil

like the devil prepositional phrase: with great speed or fury.

Prepositional phrase

like the devil

  1. (colloquial) With great speed or fury.

Questions about like the devil

What does like the devil mean?
Like the devil means with great speed or fury.
What part of speech is like the devil?
Like the devil is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like the devil in the dictionary

  1. like that
  2. like the back end of a bus
  3. like the bottom of a birdcage
  4. like the cat that got the cream
  5. like the clappers
  6. like the devil
  7. like the man said
  8. like the man says
  9. like the new time
  10. like the sound of one's own voice
  11. like the wind

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