run full-tilt boogie

1. To perform at the highest capacity or level of performance possible. When I first bought the car it was a total hunk of junk, but after a few months of work, I've got it running full-tilt boogie. After a bit of a slump last year, our manufacturers are finally running full-tilt boogie again.

2. To run very rapidly and with reckless abandon. When I realized that a shadowy figure had stepped into the alley behind me, I ran full-tilt boogie out of there!

See also: boogie, run

See also:

at full-tilt boogie
boogie
full-tilt boogie
go full-tilt boogie
not anything like
(I) told you (so)
I told you so
has had its chips
clear (someone or something) out of (some place)
clear out of some place

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