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| brash |
hasty and reckless; rash; impetuous. [1/2 definitions] |
| dizzy |
impulsive or hasty. [1/7 definitions] |
| gobble1 |
to eat in a hasty, greedy, and sometimes noisy manner (often fol. by "up"). [1/3 definitions] |
| gold rush |
a sudden, hasty rush of people to an area where gold has been recently discovered. |
| headlong |
hasty, sudden, or quick. [1/4 definitions] |
| hothead |
one who is hasty or rash. [1/2 definitions] |
| kiss-off |
(slang) a dismissal, esp. when hasty or rude. |
| once-over |
(informal) a hasty look at and evaluation of something or someone. |
| overhasty |
combined form of hasty. |
| patch |
to assemble or repair in a hasty or improvised manner. [1/10 definitions] |
| pell-mell |
in a hasty, disordered, jumbled manner. [2 definitions] |
| precipitant |
insufficiently considered; incautious; hasty; precipitate. [1/4 definitions] |
| precipitate |
rash or hasty; impetuous. [1/11 definitions] |
| quick |
too prompt in reaction; hasty. [1/10 definitions] |
| rash1 |
reckless, ill-considered, or hasty. [2 definitions] |
| scamper |
a hasty or playful run. [1/2 definitions] |
| scramble |
any hasty, disorganized, or frantic proceeding. [1/10 definitions] |
| scribble |
to draw or write in a hasty or careless manner; scrawl. [2/6 definitions] |
| skimp |
to be hasty, careless, or stingy in doing or making something. [1/2 definitions] |
| slapdash |
hasty and haphazard. [1/2 definitions] |
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