floorboard
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]floorboard (plural floorboards)
- Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
- 1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364:
- 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.
- (automotive) The floor of a vehicle.
- 1999, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212:
- The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.
Derived terms
[edit]- floorboarding (noun)
Translations
[edit]any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
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Verb
[edit]floorboard (third-person singular simple present floorboards, present participle floorboarding, simple past and past participle floorboarded)
- (transitive) To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
- 1953, Ross Macdonald, Gone Girl:
- I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.
