floor the accelerator

Frequency: 5.52.5 per million words

To press the accelerator pedal down as far as it will go.

acceleratorVERB + ACCELERATOR

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floor

Examples (10)

  • Seeing the open road ahead, she couldn't resist and floored the accelerator.
  • The driver floored the accelerator to merge onto the busy motorway.
  • In the movie's chase scene, the hero floors the accelerator to escape.
  • You'll burn too much fuel if you constantly floor the accelerator.
  • With a roar from the engine, he floored the accelerator and left everyone in the dust.
  • The race car driver is trained to know the exact moment to floor the accelerator out of a turn.
  • Panicked, the driver mistakenly floored the accelerator instead of the brake.
  • I told him not to, but he floored the accelerator anyway, just to show off.
  • The test protocol requires the driver to floor the accelerator for five seconds straight.
  • When the engine started sputtering, flooring the accelerator was the worst thing he could have done.