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coast to coast

coast to coast adverb: all the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.

Adverb

coast to coast (not comparable)

  1. All the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.
    • Coast-to-coast, L.A. to Chicago: Western male / Across the North and South, to Key Largo: love for sale1984, Sade Adu, Ray St. John, “Smooth Operator”, in Diamond Life, performed by Sade
    • On weekdays, five trains ran coast to coast (up from three) with a further four between Leeds and Liverpool and one from Leeds to Manchester.2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 60

Forms of coast to coast

alternative formcoast-to-coast

Questions about coast to coast

What does coast to coast mean?
Coast to coast means all the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.
What part of speech is coast to coast?
Coast to coast is an adverb.

Words near coast to coast in the dictionary

  1. coast rat
  2. coast rats
  3. coast rhododendron
  4. Coast Salish
  5. coast spurge
  6. coast to coast
  7. Coast Tsimshian
  8. coast waiter
  9. coast waiters
  10. coast-to-coast
  11. coastal

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