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floorboard

floorboard noun: any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.

floorboard: any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
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Noun

floorboard (plural floorboards)

  1. Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
    • There was a rat that lived under our duplex. […] It went in and out through a broken floorboard in the porch, and into our kitchens, but we didn’t believe in killing it.1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364
  2. The floor of a vehicle.
    • The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.1999, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212

Verb

floorboard (third-person singular simple present floorboards, present participle floorboarding, simple past and past participle floorboarded)

  1. (transitive) To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
    • I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.1953, Ross Macdonald, Gone Girl

Examples of floorboard in a sentence

  • She considered carpeting her bedroom floor to cover the blood stains in the floorboards.
  • Fred assured me the floorboards were sound.
  • We're going to have to take up the floorboards.

All 19 example sentences with floorboard

Forms of floorboard

Noun
pluralfloorboards
alternative formfloor-board
Verb
third-person singular presentfloorboards
present participlefloorboarding
past participlefloorboarded
pastfloorboarded

Origin of floorboard

From floor + board.

Words formed from floorboard

Questions about floorboard

What does floorboard mean?
Floorboard means any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
What part of speech is floorboard?
Floorboard can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of floorboard?
The plural of floorboard is floorboards.

Words near floorboard in the dictionary

  1. floor-to-ceiling
  2. floor-walker
  3. floor-walkers
  4. floorage
  5. floorball
  6. floorboard
  7. floorboarded
  8. floorboarding
  9. floorboards
  10. floorbox
  11. floorboxes

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