0 past simple and past participle of career
1 (especially of a vehicle) to move fast and in a way that is out of control:
We remember how she took her firmly by the hand and careered onward with breathless speed and landed exhausted at her destination.
I have felt that the whole process of nationalisation has careered along madly in a vacuum.
Has not the project almost careered out of control because of the 56 design changes that have been made?
It careered for 100 m, well ahead of the crash barrier.
The project has certainly not "careered out of control".
As a result of that sudden action by the driver, the car careered at 70 mph across the middle of the road, through a hedge and into a tree.
She was thrown out of a window and on to the platform as the rear carriage became detached and careered along the platform before becoming wedged under the station canopy.
Yet the vehicle left the road some 30 m before the beginning of the crash harrier and careered down the embankment in a way that surprised all of us.
