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wall-to-wall en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of carpeting, that covers all of the floor of a room.
  2. (idiomatic, informal, not-comparable) Pervasive, ubiquitous, or unremitting.
    • I am fed up with wall-to-wall pop music.
    • The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.
    • We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs. 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV review: The Simpsons (Classic): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
  3. (idiomatic, informal, not-comparable) Of a space, full or crowded.
    • The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.
    • The set is hot, there's people wall to wall / Old ones, young things, short ones standing tall / So grab the one with the smiling faces / And hit the floor and stay right on the cases / The heat is on and the funk just won't leave us alone 1980, Brothers Johnson, “Stomp!”, in Light Up The Night:
    • The main ballroom at the exclusive Pacific Club in Newport Beach was wall to wall with lawyers, judges, and politicians last December as the law school at the University of California, Irvine—the first public law school launched in California in more than 40 years—hosted a coming-out party for its first dean. 2008 December, Michael Christopher Carroll, “Blue Man's Mission”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 112:

Relateds

area rug

Translations (10)

de umfangreich (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting) · fi kattava (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting) · nl kamerbreed (that covers all of the floor) · fi kokolattia- (that covers all of the floor) · de an jeder Stelle (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting) · sv heltäcknings- (that covers all of the floor) · de ununterbrochen (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting) · de rund um die Uhr (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting) · sv heltäckande (that covers all of the floor) · de unablässig (pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting)