mad dash

noun

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

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But the cameras did not show Wells' mad dash from her auditorium seat to join her husband backstage during the commercial break. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025 Rapp, after initially running downhill, misjudged Henry’s acceleration and overall speed, which turned it into a mad dash. Joe Buscaglia, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025 The demo didn't offer much puzzle variety, and the mad dash to solve them seemed the most effective method for defeating enemies despite damage-enhancing power-ups. Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 The incident echoes one in 2021, when a flaw in another Microsoft product, the email program Exchange, allowed a similar mad dash of hacking. Kevin Collier, NBC news, 22 July 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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