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tearaway

/ˈtɛəɹəweɪ/

tearaway noun: an impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.

Noun

tearaway (plural tearaways)

  1. (UK, derogatory, informal) An impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.
    • She opened her heart / To a tearaway (sheepskin tearaway) / Was covered with scars / And full of heroin2009, Peter Doherty, “Sheepskin Tearaway”, in Grace/Wastelands
    Synonyms:
    tearabout

tearaway meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

tearaway in Bengali

যাকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা কঠিন, একজন উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি

tearaway in Malayalam

hoodlum, hooligan, ruffian
പോക്കിരി, തെമ്മാടി, ദുഷ്ടൻ, മുഷ്കൻ, താന്തോന്നി, കവലച്ചട്ടമ്പി

Synonyms of tearaway

Forms of tearaway

pluraltearaways

Origin of tearaway

From tear + away.

Questions about tearaway

What does tearaway mean?
Tearaway means an impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.
What is tearaway in Bengali?
Tearaway in Bengali is যাকে নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা কঠিন, একজন উত্তেজনাপূর্ণ ব্যক্তি. See Tearaway meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tearaway?
Tearaway is a noun.
How do you pronounce tearaway?
Tearaway is pronounced /ˈtɛəɹəweɪ/.
What is the plural of tearaway?
The plural of tearaway is tearaways.

Words near tearaway in the dictionary

  1. tearable
  2. tearably
  3. tearabout
  4. tearabouts
  5. tearage
  6. tearaway
  7. tearaways
  8. tearbrimmed
  9. teardown
  10. teardowns
  11. teardrop

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tearaway (page history and authors); tearaway (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tearaway (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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