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Jack The Tearaway

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noun

• a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife

28%7 Taking up rugby added lines to husband – a tearaway once!
noun

• a rash or impetuous person

• English soldier killed in a rebellion against Henry IV (1364-1403)

28%5 Miscalculation caused by tearaway taking time out
noun

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• inadvertent incorrectness

• a misconception resulting from incorrect information

• (baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed

• departure from what is ethically acceptable

• (computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

• part of a statement that is not correct

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