dead run

noun

Definitions

  1. Coming as fast as one can, often in a harried state.

    • When she saw smoke coming from the kitchen, the old woman came in on the dead run to remove the burned loaf of bread from the oven.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dead run. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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