coast to coast

adverb

All the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.

Meanings

adverbcoast to coast (not comparable)

alternative coast-to-coast

  1. not comparableAll 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 sale

    1984, Sade Adu, Ray St. John, “Smooth Operator”, in Diamond Life, performed by Sade
    1 more example

    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
Cite this entry
APA

coast to coast. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coast%20to%20coast

MLA

“coast to coast.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coast%20to%20coast. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coast to coast,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coast%20to%20coast.

Source: coast to coast on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.