English Explanatory Dictionary

to the gills

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. Entirely or extremely; to the greatest degree possible.

Pronunciation

En-au-to the gills.ogg

Word forms

to the gills

Synonyms

all the way from soup to nuts in excelsis to the backbone to the bone to the brim to the core to the fullest to the full to the gills to the gunnels to the hilt to the max to the nines to the nth degree to the tonsils to the top of one's bent top to bottom up to eleven

Derived words

sloshed to the gills
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