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Hell-for-leather

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Adverb

1. hell-for-leather

at breakneck speed

Example Sentences:
'they were travelling hell-for-leather'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hell-for-leather

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at great speed

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Hell-for-leather

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adjective
1. 
with all of one's energy, will, etc.; with wholehearted or reckless determination
2. 
at full speed or with great speed
a hell-for-leather chase
adverb
3. 
in a hell-for-leather manner or fashion

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hell-for-leather

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adv. & adj.
Informal
At breakneck speed: "The journey back he made along the coast road, traveling hell-for-leather" (Idival Jones).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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