Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. 1 (context of carpeting English) That covers all of the floor of a room. 2 (context informal English) pervasive, ubiquitous, or unremitting.
Usage examples of "wall-to-wall".
In the centre of the wall-to-wall screen the object Bahadur had described stood out incongruously.
Pieces of tackless carpet strips meant wall-to-wall had been removed, too, and not professionally.
I were stretching wall-to-wall carpet onto a tackless batten, lifting him five, six inches in the air with each pop.
The place was as big as one of those warehouse club megastores and was packed wall-to-wall with Long Island office workers hot-wiring weekend self-images in Hathaway suits, with big-haired girls in sequined jackets and leggings, limbs jangling gold chains on the crashing backbeat of music that braced you like a high wind.
The streets were literally wall-to-wall with cariocas, dancing the samba, sweating, laughing, staggering in the heat, celebrating in the biggest spontaneous outpouring of joy that the city had ever seen.
The opposite end of the room was blocked off by a massive wooden counter and a wall-to-wall slab of milky Lucite layered with wire mesh.
Wall-to-wall carpet covered the floor, and oriental rugs in turn covered most of the broadloom.
And I figure hardwood with area rugs, instead of that gray sea of wall-to-wall.
There were no steps, no changes in elevation, no area rugs, and no signs of wall-to-wall carpet within view.
This place is a wall-to-wall tourist trap, a many-bladed carnivorous plant that digests easy credit and spits out the drained husks of foreigners.
Upstairs the polished honey parquet floor gave way to thick pile wall-to-wall the color of clotted cream.
Behind Tom Brokaw and John Chancellor was a wall-to-wall situation map of the District of Columbia, and they were explaining what had been happening.
The ship's gym was a fair- sized room with wall-to-wall mirrors and a thick carpet, exercise machines around the perimeter and mostly open in the center.
The law office itself had a reception area that might as well have been that of a five-star hotel: a flower arrangement of eighteenth-century density and ostentation, thick mushroom-coloured wall-to-wall, an abstract painting composed of pricey smudges.
After dinner we watch The Parent Trap on video and the Heppworth family kind of hangs around watching us until we all take turns putting on our pajamas in the second floor bathroom and we crowd into Mary Christinas room that is decorated totally in pink, even the wall-to-wall carpet.