breakneck

Meaning of breakneck

noun
  1. A fall that breaks the neck.
  2. A dangerous steep place from which one could fall.
adjective
  1. Dangerously fast; hell-for-leather.
    He came running around the corner at a breakneck pace and couldn't stop in time to avoid hitting the fruit stand.

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Hyphenation of breakneck

break-neck

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
  • breakneck is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of breakneck

Words that rhyme with breakneck

neck, Teaneck, redneck, Duveneck, bottleneck, fiddleneck, gooseneck, littleneck, snakeneck, turtleneck, writheneck, stiffneck, longneck, ringneck, roughneck, stretchneck, blackneck, crookneck, thickneck, bullneck, cowlneck, rollneck, swanneck, Doneck, Mamaroneck, dorneck, halterneck, leatherneck, limberneck, rubberneck, sneck, unsneck, crewneck, wryneck

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