informalVIOLENT a young person who behaves badly and often gets into trouble 小流氓,小混混;不良青年
His car was wrecked by a couple of young tearaways.
他的车被几个小流氓弄得一塌糊涂。
Examples from the Corpus
tearaway• When he turned towards me at Dun Laoghaire, he looked the completetearaway.• The 11-year-old tearaway, who has netted £150,000 in the past two years, was nicked after a pubraid.• The nine-year-old tearaway was arrested when a drivercaught him trying to get into his car by sliding through the sunroof.• I am 20 years old with a one-year-old who is adorable, but a realtearaway.• Past attempts to stop the tearaways have failed because in many cases they have not actually been breaking speedlimits.• What it says about the young tearaway is even more remarkable.