full tilt boogie
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
full tilt boogie
- (idiomatic) at the most extreme level; at full capacity.
- 2004, Bruce Hale, The Malted Falcon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 55 ↗:
- So we ran, full tilt boogie. Behind us, the footsteps echoed. ¶ Natalie and I shot around the corner. Before our pursuers appeared, I pointed up. Natalie flapped to the roof. I scrambled after her.
- 2006, Mike Zimmerman, Men's Health; Succeed Like This Joker, Rodale, Inc., page 166 ↗:
- I told myself, I'm going to die reaching these goals. I had to go full-tilt boogie, or I'd suck.
- 2004, Bruce Hale, The Malted Falcon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 55 ↗:
full tilt boogie (uncountable)
- (slang, idiomatic) An extreme level.
- 1990, Tony Swan, Popular Mechanics; Freewheeling, Hearst Magazines, page 30 ↗:
- Full capacity is the zinger, of course. When production hits full-tilt boogie sometime this year, the annualized rate will be about 40,000 units.
- 2007, Alafair Burke, Dead Connection, Macmillan, page 203 ↗:
- Within a year of his release, he'd OD'd on the full-tilt boogie.
- 1990, Tony Swan, Popular Mechanics; Freewheeling, Hearst Magazines, page 30 ↗:
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