wall-to-wall

adjective

Of carpeting, that covers all of the floor of a room.

“I am fed up with wall-to-wall pop music.”

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Meanings

adjectivewall-to-wall (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf carpeting, that covers all of the floor of a room.
  2. idiomaticinformalnot comparablePervasive, ubiquitous, or unremitting.

    I am fed up with wall-to-wall pop music.

    2 more examples

    The TV showed wall-to-wall coverage of the bombing.

    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.

    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
  3. idiomaticinformalnot comparableOf a space, full or crowded.

    The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.

    2 more examples

    The set is hot, there's people wall to wall / Old ones, young things, short ones standing tall / So grab the one with the smiling faces / And hit the floor and stay right on the cases / The heat is on and the funk just won't leave us alone

    1980, Brothers Johnson, “Stomp!”, in Light Up The Night

    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.

    2008 December, Michael Christopher Carroll, “Blue Man's Mission”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 112

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
all-inclusive

Translations

Dutch kamerbreed
  • kamerbreedthat covers all of the floor
Finnish kokolattia-, kattava
  • kokolattia-that covers all of the floor
  • kattavapervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
German rund um die Uhr, ununterbrochen
  • rund um die Uhrpervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
  • ununterbrochenpervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
  • an jeder Stellepervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
  • umfangreichpervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
  • unablässigpervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting — see also pervasive, ubiquitous, unremitting
Swedish heltäcknings-, heltäckande
  • heltäcknings-that covers all of the floor
  • heltäckandethat covers all of the floor
Cite this entry
APA

wall-to-wall. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wall-to-wall

MLA

“wall-to-wall.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wall-to-wall. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wall-to-wall,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wall-to-wall.

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