full blast

Definition of full blastnext
as in like crazy
with all power or resources being used the unsuspecting parents arrived home to find the stereo going full blast and the kitchen a mess

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Recent Examples of full blast The youth moment skated at full blast on the ice Tuesday night in a 4-2 win over Montreal a day after the Flyers clinched their first playoff berth since 2020 and their first home playoff series since 2018. CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026 The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser communications link with a receiving station back on Earth. Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2026 Shoppers give it five stars for stretch, softness, and the thick-but-not-sweaty material that keeps you at a perfect temperature, even when the plane’s overhead fan is stuck on full blast. Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 9 Feb. 2026 Understand Substorms The aurora isn’t sashaying at full blast all night. Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 27 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for full blast
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Adverb
  • Pink and Willow might have decided to wear matching pink sweaters as the family visited Santa's Village last holiday season, but Jameson wanted to do his own thing and went all out in a red number.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 7 June 2026
  • Nolan’s film went all out with the use of IMAX cameras this time around, so the demand to see it specifically in IMAX will be high and indicative of the type of theatrical event Nolan is unmatched in creating.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 4 June 2026
Adverb
  • To all appearances, so many years later, this was a mechanism that had been thoroughly tested and that worked perfectly well.
    Andrea Bajani, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • That smell might be coming from chemical disinfectants used on tanks that are rarely cleaned thoroughly.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 7 June 2026

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“Full blast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/full%20blast. Accessed 9 Jun. 2026.

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