What does a tope mean?

ExpressionColoquial

flat out, full blast — or: packed

At the maximum of whatever it will do: the heating a tope, the music a tope. It also means packed — el bar estaba a tope — and, said of a person, snowed under: voy a tope esta semana. One of the most used expressions in Spain, and not remotely vulgar.

No pongas el aire a tope, que nos congelamos.
Somebody has gone too far with a dial.

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Unit 03

¿Qué tal está el piso?

«estás a tiro de piedra»

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