like mad

Speech parts

1. like mad - Adverb

2. like mad - Phrase

Meaning

(informal) with great speed or effort or intensity; used for emphasis

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Synonyms

like crazy like hell like sin like the devil hard quickly rapidly FAST violently swiftly desperately wildly speedily madly apace
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Antonyms

after heavily slow slowly steadily leisurely
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Examples

drove like crazy Source: Internet

worked like hell to get the job done Source: Internet

this sprain hurts like hell Source: Internet

ran like sin for the storm cellar Source: Internet

work like thunder Source: Internet

fought like the devil Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

like mad

Close letter words and terms

like little babies like loud music like loud sounds like magic like marrying like like maybe