present participle and gerund of speed
Travelling very fast; moving at speed.
Specifically, travelling at an illegal speed (of vehicles, motorists).
We were overtaken on the inside by a speeding motorcyclist.
Under the influence of the drug speed; high on amphetamines.
Bob Dylan composed “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” on our floor, and a speeding Edie Sedgwick was said to have set her room on fire while gluing on her thick false eyelashes by candlelight.
Instance of) acceleration.
[…] a hearing, with a file of orders in the solicitor's bundle, as big as the common-prayer-book, for commissions, injunctions, publications, speedings, delayings, and other interlocutories; all dear ware to the client in every respect.
Driving faster than the legal speed limit.
He was fined $100 for speeding.
From speed + -ing.
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