arenaful

plural arenafuls · plural arenasful

1. as much as an arena would hold.

   It was our sincere hope that though they were singing for Jesus now, our new idols had once snorted their weight in cocaine and boinked arenasful of groupies.

   2010, Matt Labash, Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 184

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   Called "Texania 72", the show blossomed with Texas talent and some nice international touches: an arenaful of flags of Rotary countries posted in by scores of galloping horsemen

   1972, The Rotarian, page 27

   My initial thought was: 'It's what we call “vergüenza torera,” literally “a bullfighter's sense of shame,”' and then: 'Because bullfighters, of course, have loads of witnesses, a whole arenaful, plus sometimes a TV audience of millions,

   2009, Javier Marías, Your Face Tomorrow, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 4

   He had all the goods to make him a great lead singer: hot looks, an animal-like sexuality, a mysteriousness, and the ability to deliver to an arenaful of people and touch the person in the back row.

   2010, Belinda Carlisle, Lips Unsealed: A Memoir, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 116