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full steam ahead

full steam ahead is the alternative form of full speed ahead.

Meaning of full speed ahead

Interjection

  1. (usually) A command to move forward at maximum speed.
    • Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

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Questions about full steam ahead

What is full steam ahead the alternative form of?
Full steam ahead is the alternative form of full speed ahead.

Words near full steam ahead in the dictionary

  1. full siblings
  2. full spectrum superiority
  3. full speed ahead
  4. full stack
  5. full steam
  6. full steam ahead
  7. full stop
  8. full stopped
  9. full stopping
  10. full stops
  11. full stroke seek time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: full steam ahead (page history and authors); full speed ahead (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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