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• s  used of gasoline; having a high octane number
• s  vigorously energetic or forceful
  a high-octane sales manager
  a high-octane marketing plan

• Much of the more than $1 billion that Washington has poured into intelligence services since 911 is merely high-octane fuel flooding a leaky and misfiring engine.
• At the same time, the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) has languished, in part because young Chinese players would prefer to watch the high-octane antics of the NBA rather than .
• Fueled by high-octane growth, the world's largest democracy is becoming a global power.

• high-powered
• high-power
• high-voltage
• high-energy

News & Articles

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• College World Series 2013 Bracket: Predicting UCLA vs LSU and Other Top Matchups
  We have some scintillating showdowns in store for us in the 2013 College World Series . In the first matchups that were determined, No. 15 UCLA and No. 4 LSU will battle it out and No. 16 Louisville and No. 12 Indiana will clash. All four squads have looked mighty powerful throughout the 2013 NCAA Division I baseball tournament, pointing to some high-octane matchups in the CWS . *Official ...
  June 11, 2013 - Bleacher Report
• At Tony Awards, Vance and Light win early
  NEW YORK (AP) — Courtney B. Vance and Judith Light have won the first Tony Awards of Sunday's night telecast, one that opened with a high-octane song that boasted this night would be bigger than ever.
  June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Tony Awards begin with a bang; win for Vance
  NEW YORK (AP) — Courtney B. Vance has won the first Tony Award of the night, taking the trophy for best featured actor in a play after host Neil Patrick Harris opened the show with a high-octane song boasting this night would be bigger than ever.
  June 10, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Amare Stoudemire in Sports Network
  It was a lot of fun,said Stoudemire. "It's beginning to be a lot of fun out there......when we play a high-octane offense. We got ourselves going, everybody got themselves good spacing and shooting rhythm and we played well."