speed freak

Frequency: 6.53.5 per million words

a person who loves driving very fast or is obsessed with high speeds

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Examples (10)

  • For the real speed freak, there is a fuel-injection version of the car.
  • My brother is a total speed freak and spends weekends at the racetrack.
  • She used to be a speed freak, but after the accident she slowed down.
  • The speed freaks were thrilled when the autobahn section reopened.
  • I'm no speed freak; I prefer scenic routes.
  • As a confessed speed freak, he tracks every lap time to the millisecond.
  • Only a speed freak would rent a car just to try its launch control.
  • The ad targets speed freaks with talk of turbochargers and carbon brakes.
  • Her parents worry that the speed freak in her will get her into trouble.
  • Before long, his friends started calling him a speed freak for the way he drives at night.