Usually means: Completely, from start to finish.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word all the way:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. all the way: Merriam-Webster
  2. all the way: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. all the way: Vocabulary.com
  4. all the way: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. all the way: Wiktionary
  6. all the way: Dictionary.com
  7. All the Way (Allstar Weekend album), All the Way (Brenda Lee album), All the Way (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), All the Way (Calloway album), All the Way (Craig David song), All the Way (Eddie Vedder song), All the Way (Etta James album), All the Way (Frank Sinatra album), All the Way (Frank Sinatra song), All the Way (Growing Album), All the Way (TV series), All the Way (Timeflies song), All the Way (film), All the Way (play), All the Way, All the way: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. all the way: Rhymezone
  9. all the way: FreeDictionary.org
  10. all the way: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. all the way: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all the way: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all the way: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. all the way: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. all the way, all the way: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. all the way: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (all the way)

▸ adverb:  Completely, as much as possible; in full; to the end or full extent.
▸ adverb:  (of food, colloquial) With every typical condiment or topping; with every available one.

Similar:
clear, the whole way, full out, entirely, totally, utterly, wholly, completely, the whole nine yards, fullwise, more...

Phrases:
go all the way, Going All the Way, all the way along the line, all the way down the line, goes all the way, more...

Adjectives:
full on, one, total, entire, whole, plenary, full-blown, over, thoroughpaced, thorough, all out

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Similar:
clear, the whole way, full out, entirely, totally, utterly, wholly, completely, the whole nine yards, fullwise, more...

Phrases:
go all the way, Going All the Way, all the way along the line, all the way down the line, goes all the way, gone all the way, laugh all the way to the bank, went all the way, downhill all the way, more...

Adjectives:
full on, one, total, entire, whole, plenary, full-blown, over, thoroughpaced, thorough, all out



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