Sekirov Dictionary

full throttle

noun 2
adverb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
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.
- there was no further sign of any Nazi planes, Perry banked southward and went roaring home to Base on full throttles — 1943
•
(figurative) A maximum level of speed, effort, or risk.
- I'm in the full throttles of an embrace and this is wonderful. — 1999

adverb1

•
All out; at maximum speed, effort, or risk.
- The other, the Christina Covey, there was another that never knowed the harbour, why, she come in full throttle — 1988

forms

full throttles · more full throttle · most full throttle

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