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at full pelt

at full pelt is the alternative form of full pelt.

Meaning of full pelt

Adverb

full pelt (not comparable)

  1. Very quickly.
    • It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Battle of the North Atlantic”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC, § 1, page 146

Questions about at full pelt

What is at full pelt the alternative form of?
At full pelt is the alternative form of full pelt.

Words near at full pelt in the dictionary

  1. at first bluff
  2. at first blush
  3. at first glance
  4. at first hand
  5. at first sight
  6. at full pelt
  7. at full stretch
  8. at full throttle
  9. at full tilt
  10. at gaze
  11. at grade

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