full pelt
English
Etymology
From full + pelt (“act of moving quickly, rush”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /fʊl ˈpɛlt/
- Rhymes: -ɛlt
Adverb
- Very quickly.
- 1907, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Battle of the North Atlantic”, in The War in the Air: […], London: George Bell and Sons, published 1908, →OCLC, § 1, page 146:
- It's a good day off us anyhow, and they're all going south-west by south full pelt as hard as they can go.