Dictionary

full throttle en · ADV

Meanings

1. All out; at maximum speed, effort, or risk.
   • Virtually all exercise authorities recommend some kind of warm-up period in each session before you go full throttle 1996, Steven Jonas, The Essential Triathlete:
   • The other, the Christina Covey, there was another that never knowed the harbour, why, she come in full throttle 1988, Murray A. Pura with Loren Wilkinson, Mizzly Fitch: The Light, the Sea, the Storm, page 14:
   • If Nonna had seen them, she would do the same as Dad, but I looked back to see her focused full throttle on whatever it was George was saying. 2006, Dorothea Benton Frank, Full of Grace, page 212:

Forms

Synonyms

full tilt boogie · full bore

Translations (10)

de mit Vollgas (all out) · cmn 全力以赴 (all out) · pl do końca (all out) · gl cagando chispas (all out) · gl a lume de biqueira (all out) · fi lusikka pohjassa (all out) · fr à toute berzingue (all out) · pl do oporu (all out) · cmn 加足馬力 /加足马力 (all out) · fr à fond la caisse (all out)

full throttle en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A maximum setting on an engine or motor control: especially, the totally open position of a valve for air intake, but also any corresponding maximum setting.
   • Under full throttle, your car is just on the border of maximum traction 2003, Bob Bondurant with John Blakemore, Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving, page 85:
   • its regs and serirs over which Land Rovers can race with full throttles and little chance of meeting any obstacle larger than a fist-sized stone. 1975, John Innes Clarke, An Advanced Geography of Africa, page 43:
   • there was no further sign of any Nazi planes, Perry banked southward and went roaring home to Base on full throttles 1943, Johnston Carroll, “Wings of the North”, in Leo Margulies, editor, Flying Wildcats, page 127:
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) A maximum level of speed, effort, or risk.
   • The full-throttle growth was still in place, as it had been as long as I could remember. 2008, Otis L Graham, Jr., Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future, page 193:
   • I'm in the full throttles of an embrace and this is wonderful. 1999, David M. Jacobs, The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda, page 228:
   • In the third week Dr. Gale shifted into full throttle back pedal. 2003, Jennifer Hendricks with Gordon Hendricks, Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment, page 176:

Forms

Antonyms

idle · low gear · idling

Deriveds

at full throttle

Relateds

step on it

Synonyms

balls to the wall · balls-out · pedal to the metal · top gear · full bore · overdrive

Translations (21)

fr en avant toute (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · pl pełen gaz (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no bånn pinne (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · de volle Kraft (naut.) (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · cmn 加足馬力 /加足马力 (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · cmn 全節流 /全节流 (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · tr tam gaz (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no full gass (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no bånn gass (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · bg газ до ду́пка (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · de Vollgas (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · nl volle petrol (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no klampen i bånn (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · ja べたぶみ (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no fullt pådrag (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · ja フルスロットル (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · sv full gas (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · de voller Schub (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · fr à fond la caisse (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · fr à plein gaz (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control) · no fullt gasspådrag (a maximum setting on an engine or motor control)