FULL TILT

Definition: FULL TILT

FULL TILT

1. With full force. --Dampier.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Activity

Adverb: actively; Adjective: with life and spirit, with might and main;with haste; with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus.

Attack

Ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail, go at hammer and tongs.

Direction

Adverb: towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to; hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies.

Pursuit

Rush upon; rush headlong; (violence) ride full tilt at, run full tilt at; make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down; start game.

Ray Tracey in Full Tilt (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Full Tilt (reference)

• Full Tilt Living: Live in the Moment Even When It Stinks! Find the Juicy Parts and Let the World Know You Are Here (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Full tilt for the Capitol. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "FULL TILT": at full tilt ♦ full tilt at. Additional references.

Albanian

me të gjithë shpejtësinë (at full tilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏بتهور (at full tilt, blindly, headlong, impulsively, pell mell, rashly), ‏بسرعة فائقة (all out, at full pelt, at full tilt). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с все сили (all out, at full tilt). (various references)

French

imprudemment (at full tilt), avec toute la vitesse (at full tilt). (various references)

Hebrew 

במ�"ירות מרבית (all out, at full pelt, full speed, posthaste). (various references)

Hungarian

vágtában (at full tilt, tantivy), teljes sebeséggel, lóhalálában (at full tilt, hotfoot, in a mortal hurry, post haste). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

本� �化 (getting up speed, proceeding at full tilt, regularization). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほ�"かくか (getting up speed, proceeding at full tilt, regularization). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullfay ilttay

Romanian

în plinã vitezã (at full tilt, flat out, full throttle). (various references)

Russian 

изо всех сил (at full tilt, flat out, for all one is worth, hammer and tongs, like grim death, tooth and nail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

svim snagama (tilt: at full tilt). (various references)

Spanish

a toda velocidad (all out, at a rare bat, at full pelt, at full speed, at full tilt, at top speed, in full steam), a toda fuerza (at full tilt). (various references)

Swedish

i full fart (at full pelt, at full speed, at full tilt, in full swing). (various references)

Turkish

son hızla (at full lick, at full speed, at full tilt), bütün hızıyla (at full tilt). (various references)

Ukrainian

щосили (amain, at full tilt, like anything). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: fill, flit, full, lift, lilt, litu, lull, till, tilt, tuft.

-5 letters: fil, fit, flu, ill, lit, til, tit, tui, tut.