coast to coast

English

Adverb

coast to coast (not comparable)

1. All the way across an island, continent, or country with two opposite coasts.
   • 1984, Sade Adu, Ray St. John (lyrics and music), “Smooth Operator”, in Diamond Life, performed by Sade:

     Coast-to-coast, L.A. to Chicago: Western male / Across the North and South, to Key Largo: love for sale

   • 2021 January 13, David Clough, “Trans-Pennine transport transformers”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 60:

     On weekdays, five trains ran coast to coast (up from three) with a further four between Leeds and Liverpool and one from Leeds to Manchester.

Alternative forms

• coast-to-coast

References

• “coast to coast”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.