LekhoriLekhoriWith the head first or down.
With an unrestrained forward motion.
Figures out today show the economy plunging headlong into recession.
Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; in haste, hastily.
Precipitous.
Their path led them past sharp cliffs, along narrow trails unknown and untrodden, past headlong boulders strewn across barren, treeless, wind-haunted heights.
Plunging downwards head foremost.
To precipitate.
If a stranger be setting his pace and face toward some deep pit, or steep rock — such a precipice as the cliffs of Dover — how do we cry aloud to have him return ? yet in mean time forget the course of our own sinful ignorance, that headlongs us to confusion.
From Middle English hedlong, alteration of hedling, heedling, hevedlynge (“headlong”), assimilated to long. More at headling.
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On sighting their prey, they check their flight and hurtle in a headlong dive to the sea.
Rushing forward without restraint.
Bumps, bruises, and scratches are often the result of their efforts to outstrip each other in the headlong race.