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- noun Plural form of
tearaway .
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Examples
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More than half of parents felt they were seen more as a friend than a parent and would rather sit down and talk things through than discipline them, and a quarter said they wished they were more strict with their kids because their children were 'tearaways' now.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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More than half of parents felt they were seen more as a friend than a parent and would rather sit down and talk things through than discipline them, and a quarter said they wished they were more strict with their kids because their children were 'tearaways' now.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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More than half of parents felt they were seen more as a friend than a parent and would rather sit down and talk things through than discipline them, and a quarter said they wished they were more strict with their kids because their children were 'tearaways' now.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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More than half of parents felt they were seen more as a friend than a parent and would rather sit down and talk things through than discipline them, and a quarter said they wished they were more strict with their kids because their children were 'tearaways' now.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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He'd been running his place here near the railway station too long to panic the first time a couple of young tearaways tried extortion.
'Kismet' 2010
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Of course I am sure the officers are much happier with the mock heroics of breaking down doors and wouldn't relish tackling teenage tearaways - but there you go!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The media loves to whip up hysteria and labels ALL teenagers as ignorant, filthy tearaways.
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What concerns me a bit is that the more footage TV shows us of tearaways driving off with tyres smoking when the police try to stop them, the more some young lads will feel that the same is almost expected of them when they are flagged down.
Influence Bystander 2008
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Banned: Police ordered to stop calling young tearaways ‘yobs’
What Are Words Worth? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006
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Indeed, if you look at that bigoted loon Dacre at the Mail you might suspect he was in the pay of an enemy power, as his antics are far more socially corrosive than ten thousand little tearaways setting wheelybins alight.
Baby P might have become a “feral, parasitic yob” Alix Mortimer 2008
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