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Word entry · 8 letters

headlong

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"Recklessly fast"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈhɛd.lɒŋ/Part of speech adjective, adverbSorted adeghlnoStarts with HEnds with G1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. with the head foremost

Word origin

From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling.

Used in a sentence

  • Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.
  • I felt deja vu as I recalled a video in which a Tesla owner slammed on the brakes after his car appeared set on crashing headlong into a construction site.
  • Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.

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