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leadfooted

[led-foot-id]

adjective

Informal.
  1. awkward; clumsy.

  2. tending to drive too fast.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of leadfooted1

First recorded in 1955–60; lead 2 + footed
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Example Sentences

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Yes, this movie — No. 5 in an increasingly leadfooted series — actually exists.

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I’m a manual transmission guy at heart, but I was won over by the automatic’s willingness to stick with a gear through the powerband, and its seeming ability to learn from my leadfooted driving style very quickly.

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Unhappy with Albany's pace, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suggested on Friday a different tack: public shaming of leadfooted drivers.

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Despite a sprained ankle, Paul Newman leadfooted it out of the pits so furiously that he tore up his car's transmission.

The leadfooted daredevils who race on Europe's Grand Prix circuit, at Indianapolis' famed "Brickyard," and on dusty stock-car tracks across the U.S. have only two things in common: a fondness for money and a disdain for one another.

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