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floorer

floorer noun: someone who floors, lays flooring.

Noun

floorer (plural floorers)

  1. Someone who floors, lays flooring.
  2. (UK) In skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
  3. (informal) A knock-down blow.
  4. (informal) A decisive retort.
  5. (informal) A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
  6. (in-compounds, rare) A building with the specified number of floors.
    • You enter a skyscraper in an American city. The “theater” is a ten-floorer, the floors occupied by the theater running consecutively upward from ground. […] There are 10 auditoriums, one above the other in this 10-floorer, and in each auditorium the show is the same.1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The Film Daily, page 238

Forms of floorer

pluralfloorers

Origin of floorer

From floor + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix).

Questions about floorer

What does floorer mean?
Floorer means someone who floors, lays flooring.
What part of speech is floorer?
Floorer is a noun.
What is the plural of floorer?
The plural of floorer is floorers.

Words near floorer in the dictionary

  1. floorcoverings
  2. floordrobe
  3. floordrobes
  4. floored
  5. floored it
  6. floorer
  7. floorers
  8. floorful
  9. floorfuls
  10. floorgrip
  11. floorgrips

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