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English
Adjective
wall-to-wall (not comparable)
- (of carpeting) That covers all of the floor of a room.
- (informal) Pervasive, ubiquitous, or unremitting.
- The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.
2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV review: The Simpsons (Classic): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs.
- (informal, of a space) Full, crowded.
The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.
2008 December, Michael Christopher Carroll, “Blue Man's Mission”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 112:The main ballroom at the exclusive Pacific Club in Newport Beach was wall to wall with lawyers, judges, and politicians last December as the law school at the University of California, Irvine—the first public law school launched in California in more than 40 years—hosted a coming-out party for its first dean.
Translations
that covers all of the floor
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