Boggle Word Finder
OVERDRIVE
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Classic
11
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Big
11
pts
Super Big
18
pts
OVERDRIVE is a valid 9-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 18 in Super Big Boggle.
Word family
verb
- transitiveTo drive too hard, or far, or beyond strength.
noun
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countabledateduncountableA gear, on an automobile, higher than the traditional top gear, mainly to allow better fuel economy at highway speeds. In the 21st century, such gears are no longer viewed as "extra" and thus rarely called by this name.
- In the 1970s, many transmission designs were revised to add an overdrive gear.
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figurativelyuncountableA state of heightened activity.
- overdrive pacing
- The campaign has been in overdrive since the recent announcement.
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countableeuphemisticslanguncountableFreewheeling (driving a vehicle with the transmission in neutral) on downhill stretches to achieve higher fuel economy and/or speed than otherwise. In colloquial registers, ethnically bigoted variants have been common, such as Jewish overdrive (alluding to the stereotype of miserly Jews) or Mexican overdrive or Polish overdrive (alluding to stereotypes of foolishness and poverty).
- Of course overdrive is forbidden for dump trucks in the quarry because it is unsafe, but unscrupulous workers were found to be using it because of a perverse incentive involving tonnage piece rates.
- countableuncountableA gear ratio higher than 1:1: one in which a single revolution of the driving element corresponds to more than one revolution of the driven element.