ALL IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does all in mean? 

• ALL IN (adjective)
  The adjective ALL IN has 1 sense:

1. very tired

  Familiarity information: ALL IN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ALL IN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very tired

Synonyms:

all in; beat; bushed; dead

Context example:

I'm dead after that long trip

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

There you have it all in a nutshell, Watson, and if you can give me any light I shall be infinitely obliged to you.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can see that it is all in vain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I am all in the dark.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You'll find it all in the grammar," she went on.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I know Mercury retrograde can be frustrating, but we are all in the same boat with the trickster’s delays and miscommunications.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"You don't have to eat dogs. You think different just about the time you're all in. You've never ben all in, so you don't know anything about it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I was conscious of the Professor's hand on my head, and started awake all in a second.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I obeyed, all in a tremble, and was conducted into another room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As I sat in my bunk examining it (the six hunters were all in the steerage, smoking and talking in loud voices), Henderson took a passing glance at it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)