verb
- Live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely.
- usage: "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
- Coast in a vehicle using the freewheel.
- synonyms: freewheel
adjective
- Free of restraints or rules.
- usage: "freewheeling foolishness"; "the versatility of his poetic freewheeling style"
- Cheerfully irresponsible.
- usage: "carefree with his money"; "freewheeling urban youths"; "had a harum-scarum youth"
- synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy
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