Definition of "hyperdrive" []

• A fictional device allowing a spaceship to travel faster than the speed of light, especially by passing through hyperspace. (noun)
• Informal A state of heightened activity or concentration. (noun)

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• "March 17th, 2010 at 9: 37 pm glamourdammerung says: drhunt1 says: glamour-quit reading the left-winged blogs that are in hyperdrive right now, attempting to minimize this particular poll."
• "Side Note: I keep looking for worthy Star Trek goodies to write about but the merchandising biys at Lucasfilm seem to be in hyperdrive mode this year."
• "At some point, not that long ago, Jamie Stuart, even under the pressure of an impossible turnaround, realized that signaling "immediacy" or "timeliness" by giving the camera a Dogme-tic rattle, saturating the soundtrack with newsfeed noise and cramming it all through any given editing software's hyperdrive is so 20th century."