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tearaway
noun
a minor criminal, one who tends towards violence at the slightest excuse UK
Originally a “ladies’ tearaway”, a criminal specializing in snatching (tearing away) women’s handbags.- [N]o thief and tearaway shows any emotion just because he has got a capture, and has got a lagging to do[.] — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 8, 1958
- Now then Frankie boy, this is’nt [sic] what a tearaway does, come on, your [sic] a villain not a sniveller — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 8, 1958
- Bobby Twist, a tearaway (or strongarm man) now dead. — John Gosling, 1959
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