WordNet
adv. without delay; "she tackled the job lickety-split" [syn: lickety split, lickety cut, with a rush]
Usage examples of "at full speed".
The three-horns were five hundred feet away and still coming at full speed.
Cutter said, his huge Firebat suit running past Ardo at full speed.
When the serpent met the unseen mountainside he was flying at full speed, augmented by the momentum of a steep dive.
There were many interesting problems to occupy him, not least of them was how long he could run at full speed towards the north while his boilers devoured coal ravenously, and each minute widened the gap between Blitcher and Esther.
It was as though Surprise was fighting a dreadful battle of her own, the hands stripped to the waist, handkerchiefs round their heads, deadly serious, extremely active, checking the recoil, sponging, loading, ramming home the charge and running the ton of metal up against its port with a bang while the gun's captain aimed it and the powder-boys ran at full speed with their cartridges from the magazine, while the deck trembled and the taut shrouds vibrated.
Emerson was ten feet away, running at full speed, before the echoes of the crash died.
I only mean to say that for a young horse full of strength and spirits, who has been used to some large field or plain where he can fling up his head and toss up his tail and gallop away at full speed, then round and back again with a snort to his companions -- I say it is hard never to have a bit more liberty to do as you like.
He said he quite enjoyed the training with all the other horses, trotting together, turning together, to the right hand or the left, halting at the word of command, or dashing forward at full speed at the sound of the trumpet or signal of the officer.
Hearing this news, Crisnarao, without even telling any one, ordered to saddle a horse, and he rode at full speed in the direction of Rachol where already the Ydallcao was.
And on that subject, you are now going to work me out at full speed and skill to build maximum strength.
Anything that we put up, from a fox to a coyote or a prong-buck, was fair game, and was instantly followed at full speed.