1 [VN] ~ sb (with sth) to attack sb by throwing things at them:
The children pelted him with snowballs. * We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.
2 [V] ~ (down) (of rain) to fall very heavily:
By now the rain was pelting down.
3 [V+adv./prep.] (informal) to run somewhere very fast:
We pelted down the hill after the car.
noun the skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it
IDIOMS
(at) full pelt / tilt as fast as possible:
He ran full pelt to the bus stop.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pelt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pelt a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pelt is tagged as verb.
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