mad dash

noun

: a wild and uncontrolled rush
In his mad dash to the store, he forgot his wallet.

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Cue a mad dash to rendezvous with his business associates, all the while foiling further assassination plots. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 18 May 2025 Surveillance cameras at a prison in New Orleans captured the moment a group of inmates managed to escape and their subsequent mad dash toward the nearest roadway. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 17 May 2025 The 1983 team should’ve done it, if not for Dereck Whittenburg’s heave, Lorenzo Charles’ dunk and Jim Valvano’s mad dash. Brendan Quinn, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025 See Pikachu's mad dash from Turkish police forces The original video of Pikachu fleeing the scene was captured by Ismail Koçeroğlu, a photojournalist at Akdeniz University in Antalya, 404 Media reported. Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mad dash

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“Mad dash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mad%20dash. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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