noun
- people, especially young people, who behave in a wild, reckless, or rebellious manner
Usage: British; informal
Examples
- The school had trouble controlling the tearaways in the back row.
- Those tearaways were caught spray-painting the wall again.
- Despite being tearaways in their youth, they eventually settled down.
- The neighborhood tearaways raced their motorcycles through the streets.
- Parents worried about their children mixing with the local tearaways.
- The tearaways skipped school to hang out at the shopping center.