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wall-to-wall
[wawl-tuh-wawl, 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
Most episodes are recorded with small ensembles at the Bleeding Fingers facility, but the “Treehouse of Horror” chapters are special; they tend to have wall-to-wall music, and the producers splurge on a full orchestral session at Fox — just like the old days.
“Within 20 minutes, there would be 150 people sprawled wall-to-wall with serious injuries,” said Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina who has been to Gaza twice, and who was working at Nasser in March in the violent days after a ceasefire broke.
Several hundred people per day wait for their chance to snap its constellation of LED lights that bounce off of wall-to-wall mirrors and the shallow layer of water surrounding the viewing platform.
Why had the deaths of George Floyd and Jordan Neely gotten wall-to-wall media coverage, while Zarutska’s did not garner coverage in the New York Times until two weeks after her death?
At one point, the MPs questioned what one called the BBC's "wall-to-wall coverage" of Nigel Farage and Reform.
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