Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & adjective At breakneck speed.
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- adverb as fast as possible; recklessly fast
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- adverb at breakneck speed
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Examples
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We've all heard that stuff, but the hell-for-leather turf war going on under those apple trees was something else.
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The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and growth crisis he inherited and the President's hell-for-leather pursuit of his larger social-policy ambitions.
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Gambino's stylistic debt to that other middle-class rapper, Kanye West, seems a little smaller tonight than on record, even when he uses West's "All of the Lights" as a springboard for one of his own hell-for-leather verses.
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We've all heard that stuff, but the hell-for-leather turf war going on under those apple trees was something else.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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In 1949 he put together a quintet with an offbeat instrumentation — piano, vibraphone, guitar, bass and drums — that played everything from pretty-pretty ballads to such hell-for-leather bebop anthems as Denzil Best's "Move."
Both Good and Popular Terry Teachout 2011
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You can't, of course, discuss Lady Gaga without some mention of Madonna, whose blond ambition now seems positively classy next to Gaga's hell-for-leather brazenness.
Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop) 2011
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You can't, of course, discuss Lady Gaga without some mention of Madonna, whose blond ambition now seems positively classy next to Gaga's hell-for-leather brazenness.
Beyoncé, Gaga and Adele: why these three girls rule the world (of pop) 2011
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For all his hell-for-leather cowboy zeal, Stilwell was a Yankee and an intellectual, who had first gone to China as a young military attaché and had learned both Mandarin and Cantonese.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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For all his hell-for-leather cowboy zeal, Stilwell was a Yankee and an intellectual, who had first gone to China as a young military attaché and had learned both Mandarin and Cantonese.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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That said, Brown can only lose swing voters once so will now go hell-for-leather to shore up the core vote - what's left of it.
Ooo I`m Scared Newmania 2008
whichbe commented on the word hell-for-leather
A very aggressive lobbyist organization.
October 10, 2008
qms commented on the word hell-for-leather
With lips we initiate pleasure
Then race on to regions more nether.
The trip from a kiss
To sensual bliss
Is downhill and hell-for-leather.
March 12, 2014
ry commented on the word hell-for-leather
fun variant: hell-bent for leather, which shows up on Wiktionary (but not reflected on its own word page here)
March 12, 2014
bilby commented on the word hell-for-leather
Looks like some colourful insinuation about hell, and leather, IMHO.
March 3, 2015