stadiumful

English

Etymology

stadium +‎ -ful

Noun

stadiumful (plural stadiumfuls or stadiumsful)

1. the amount that fills a stadium.
   • 1957 November 30, Paul Atkinson, “Bowl Bids Await Winners: Rebel-Maroon Clash Headlines Season Finales in SEC Warfare”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume XC, number 141, Atlanta, Ga., page 9:

     Tradition by the stadiums-ful and bids by the bowls-ful await three—and possibly four—Southeastern Conference teams Saturday.

   • 1975 December, The Student‎^[1], volume LV, number 3, Nashville, Tenn.: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention:

     I’ve watched the “magic” and the “mystery” of the Bible from soul-winning clinics, Salvation Army curb services, and stadiumsful-on-crusade to perjury-proofing on Perry Mason (“Swear to tell the whole truth . . . so help me God.”) to prophesies of submarines by desert-dwellers!

   • 1983 February 17, Reporter, 94th year, number 41, Martinsville, Ind., page 1:

     He orchestrates the nuclear freeze choir, that includes bishops of the Pope’s own church, leaders of the Protestant churches enrolled in the National Council, professors by the thousands, and campus rioters by the stadiaful.

   • 1992 July 14, Andrea Brunais, “On domes, diamonds and dames”, in The Tampa Tribune, 98th year, number 168, Tampa, Fla., page 4:

     Later the distaff draftees drew stadiumsful of cheering, dedicated fans.

   • 2007, Willis Goth Regier, In Praise of Flattery, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 3:

     Tyrants want praise so much they demand it by the stadiumful, but forced praise is near screams and weeping.

   • 2008, Edward Gorman, Rough Cut and New, Improved Murder, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 37:

     He had a beautiful, faithless wife and a stadiumful of friends who drank his drinks and indulged his whims and privately considered him a fool.

   • 2011, J. R. Dunn, Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies, Broad Side, →ISBN, page 124:

     And yet we’re stymied by the challenge of building affordable housing for what amounts to six stadiumsful of people.

   • 2012, Tom Holt, chapter 4, in Open Sesame, Orbit, →ISBN:

     Imagine a stadiumful of Millwall supporters compressed into one streamlined, gold-feathered body seven feet tall at the wing, and you're mind's-eyeball to eyeball with a phoenix, age two minutes.

   • 2015, Richard Leviton, Theosophon 2033: A Visionary Recital About the World Event and Its Aftermath, iUniverse, →ISBN:

     All this would take place on a planet already copiously polluted with the chindi of innumerable millions of deceased humans, a planet of nasty, snarling ghosts, of stadiumsful of Ahrimanic Doubles looking for trouble.