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Driving vs Speedfreak - What's the difference?

driving | speedfreak |

As nouns the difference between driving and speedfreak

is that driving is the action of the verb to drive in any sense while speedfreak is (slang) an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.

As a verb driving

is .

As an adjective driving

is that drives (a mechanism or process).

driving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That drives (a mechanism or process).
  • That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent

    • Derived terms

    * driving force * driving notes * driving power * driving rain * driving spirit * driving wind

    Noun

    (wikipedia driving)
  • The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
  • In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
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    • , title= Snakes and ladders , passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving , the world is teeming with goblins.}}

    Derived terms

    * driving-box * driving-gear * driving iron, driving-iron * driving licence * driving mirror * driving-putter * driving school * driving seat * driving-stick * driving test * driving-wheel * drunk driving

    speedfreak

    English

    Alternative forms

    * speed freak

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) An addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
  • (slang) A person who enjoys driving, riding motorcycles, etc. at high speeds.

    • Quotations

    *1973 , Richard Mills, Young Outsiders: A Study of Alternative Communities , Pantheon Books: 1973, page 58: *:Jimmy: the journal of a speedfreak I have been around the West End two or three years.... *1984 , Kenneth Blum, Handbook of Abusable Drugs , Gardner Press: 1984, page 312: *:Their level of abuse is holding steady, and the intravenous injection of large amounts, the speedfreak phenomenon noted during the 1960's, almost has disappeared. *2004 , Carol Clerk, The Saga of Hawkwind , Omnibus Press: 2004, page 100: *:New boy, new speedfreak', sings song in two takes.... 'The ' speedfreak upstart - how dare he? Why isn't it me?

    References

    *speedfreak'', in ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J - Z, by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Taylor & Francis, 2006, Page 1831.