headlong

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with the head foremost

   The runner slid headlong into third base.

2. 2
   adv

   in a hasty and foolhardy manner

   I fell headlong in love with my neighbor.

From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling.

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