Crossword-Solution: BREAKNECK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Breakneck | n. | A fall that breaks the neck. |
| Breakneck | n. | A steep place endangering the neck. |
| Breakneck | a. | Producing danger of a broken neck; as, breakneck speed. |
We have 30 clues for the answer “BREAKNECK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| moving at very high speed | 1 answer |
| Suicidally reckless. | 1 answer |
| Recklessly fast | 1 answer |
| Reckless, as speed | 1 answer |
| Overfast | 1 answer |
| Fast and dangerous * | 1 answer |
| Dangerously fast | 2 answers |
| Too fast | 3 answers |
| Suicidal | 9 answers |
| wildcat | 10 answers |
| slaphappy | 10 answers |
| expeditive | 17 answers |
| Daredevil | 21 answers |
| Madcap | 33 answers |
| Crazed | 35 answers |
| Fleet | 37 answers |
| Rapid | 46 answers |
| Expeditious | 50 answers |
| Swift | 61 answers |
| Headlong | 61 answers |
| Adventurer | 62 answers |
| Touched | 67 answers |
| Giddy | 67 answers |
| Speedy | 68 answers |
| Dangerous | 70 answers |
| changeful | 71 answers |
| Hazard | 77 answers |
| Wanting | 82 answers |
| Quick | 89 answers |
| fast | 104 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BREAKNECK (5)
The bays were rushing along at breakneck speed, held but slightly back by Sir Percy’s strong, unerring hands.
Carthoris, where are the apartments of Issus?” “This way,” cried the boy, and, without waiting to know that I had heard him, he dashed off at breakneck speed, further into the bowels of the temple.
Despite 39 plus years of morning aversions, Scott readied himself at breakneck speed, thinking that reality and fantasy were often inseparable.
From the heel of the masonry, the rascally, breakneck precipice descended sheer among waste lands, scattered suburbs of the city, and houses in the building.
Why, by George, it is that woman!" A rolling cloud of yellow dust had streamed round the curve of the road, and from the heart of it had emerged a high tandem tricycle flying along at a breakneck pace.
Quotes with BREAKNECK (3)
Samson’s grace and surefootedness at breakneck paces was the closest Roxleigh had ever come to some semblance of peace in his life. His head was never clearer, his nerves were never calmer, and his mind was never more unbound than when he rode Samson. He listened to the horse’s steady breathing, the exertion of his exhalations, and the steady beat of his hooves, punctuated by the swift silence of the jumps and the exclamation of the landing, like a staccato symphony. His mind…
Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
A vast and fiery nuclear furnace launched photons through the reaches of space; they hurtled trillions of kilometers at breakneck speed, then filtered gently into the bedroom as shafts of dawn sunlight.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1954–2023).