CANNONBALL ALONG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cannonball along mean? 

• CANNONBALL ALONG (verb)
  The verb CANNONBALL ALONG has 1 sense:

1. move hurridly

  Familiarity information: CANNONBALL ALONG used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CANNONBALL ALONG (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move hurridly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it

Context example:

The cars raced down the street

Hypernyms (to "cannonball along" is one way to...):

go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cannonball along"):

barge; push forward; thrust ahead (push one's way)

buck; charge; shoot; shoot down; tear (move quickly and violently)

dart; dash; flash; scoot; scud; shoot (run or move very quickly or hastily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s