up to 11

A form of up to eleven — Up to or beyond the maximum possible threshold; to an extremely high or strong degree.

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Meanings

prepositional phrase
  1. alternativeAlternative form of up to eleven.

    All of our ring personas are elements of our real personalities, but turned up to 11.

    2012 August 15, Chris Richards, “Blade is set to cut other wrestlers down to size”, in Brentwood Gazette
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    It's the weekly half hour when the emotion is turned up to 11 but the atmosphere is so quietened that you can hear the dust clattering against the studio's lighting rig.

    2010 May 22, Shane Hegarty, “Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bone”, in The Irish Times, Dublin: Irish Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2016

    But because this is the internet, someone always has to pitch in and turn the hostility up to 11.

    2015 April 18, Helen Lewis, “If only the sci-fi writers who hijacked the Hugo awards had the wit to imagine a world beyond the Good Old Days”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2022
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APA

up to 11. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20to%2011

MLA

“up to 11.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20to%2011. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “up to 11,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up%20to%2011.

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