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• With maximum energy or force; at top speed.

  ‘‘It was at full tilt and was almost at take-off speed,’ said Chris Formby, chief fire officer at the airport.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘They ran full tilt the second he hit the shot,’ said Watson.’
  • ‘And that's before his company was even going full tilt.’
  • ‘Yet Faulkner knows this may be his one chance to make an impression, and he has no intention of approaching this weekend's race at anything other than full tilt.’
  • ‘Yes, yours truly decided to run full tilt into the corner of the shelf.’
  • ‘And although St Joseph's may not have been at full tilt throughout the game, their speedy forwards and hunger driven runs caused Whitecross problems along the back lines.’
  • ‘So how fast could his homemade car go at full tilt?’
  • ‘When you're multitasking at full tilt, balance is one of the first things to suffer.’
  • ‘Ireland are at their best when they are playing at full tilt, when the adrenalin is flooding their veins and the prize is substantial.’
  • ‘And it was a magnificent, entertaining and exciting game of football played at full tilt by both sides.’

  Synonyms

  full speed, full pelt, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, helter-skelter, headlong, hotfoot, post-haste, hurriedly, hastily, wildly, pell-mell, impetuously, recklessly, rashly, at breakneck speed, precipitately, impulsively

  with great force, full force, with full force, full blast, with a will, for all one is worth, with might and main, with all the stops out, all out, with a vengeance, vigorously, energetically, strongly, powerfully, madly

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