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like blue murder |
like clockwork |
like crazy |
like hell |
like kings |
like mad
| like minded
| like royalty
| like sin
| like the devil
| like thunder
like mad
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial like mad has 1 sense
- like mad(r = adv.all) like crazy, like hell, like sin, like the devil, like thunder - with great speed or effort or intensity; "drove like crazy"; "worked like hell to get the job done"; "ran like sin for the storm cellar"; "work like thunder"; "fought like the devil"
THESAURUS
like mad
a corps perdu, all to pieces, carelessly, demonically, desperately, fanatically, fiercely, frantically, frenetically, furiously, happen what may, hastily, head over heels, headfirst, headforemost, headlong, heedlessly, heels over head, helter-skelter, holus-bolus, hotheadedly, hotly, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, impetuously, like a flash, like a shot, like a streak, like blazes, like crazy, like fury, like greased lightning, like lightning, like one possessed, like sin, like sixty, madly, overeagerly, overenthusiastically, overzealously, precipitantly, precipitately, precipitously, ramble-scramble, recklessly, rigorously, severely, slam-bang, slap-bang, slapdash, uncontrollably, vehemently, venomously, violently, virulently, wantonly, wildly, with a vengeance
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