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wall-to-wall
[ adjective adverb wawl-tuh-wawl; noun wawl-tuh-wawl ]
adjective
- covering the entire floor from one wall to another:
wall-to-wall carpeting.
- Informal. occupying a space or period of time completely:
The dance floor was crowded with wall-to-wall dancers. With no commercial interruptions, the telecast of the game was wall-to-wall action.
- Informal. being available everywhere; full of or saturated with something specified:
Las Vegas offers wall-to-wall gambling. Her life has been wall-to-wall misery.
adverb
- from one side to the other; to overflowing:
The store was jammed wall-to-wall with late shoppers.
noun
- a wall-to-wall carpet.
wall-to-wall
adjective
- (of carpeting) completely covering a floor
- informal.as far as the eye can see; widespread
wall-to-wall sales in the high street shops
Word History and Origins
Origin of wall-to-wall1
Example Sentences
Of all the elaborate illusions and wall-to-wall effects performed in the stage show “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the trickiest one is a signature visual of the “Stranger Things” universe: the nosebleed.
"It's like nothing else – wall-to-wall bouncing from the front to the back."
Rather than the wall-to-wall sunshine of late, there will be cloud, fresh south-westerly winds and some more appreciable, much-needed rainfall for the parched ground at the start of the new week.
It's still not wall-to-wall satellites in low Earth orbit, but it seeming will be in the near future.
Nothing cemented Snoop’s ascent to all-American everyman status more than last summer’s wall-to-wall Snoopathon that was the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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