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floorboard
[ flawr-bawrd, flohr-bohrd ]
verb (used with object)
floorboard
/ ˈflɔːˌbɔːd /
noun
- one of the boards forming a floor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of floorboard1
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Example Sentences
Beneath the floorboard is an electric motor that can whisk passengers to their destination at up to 75 miles per hour.
Its floorboard was one-fiftieth of an inch thick, about the same as the slimmest wood veneers, and would snap under an astronaut’s weight on Earth.
He exits the car, looks up, sees liquid seeping through the floorboards and rushes inside the house, where a young girl is expectantly waiting for him.
You still receive features you expect out of a Hummer, like floorboards you can hose down, but you get some luxury elements as well as impressive range.
Current science can’t prove that there are spirits walking through walls or screaming below floorboards.
And with the three lead fragments found on the rear floorboard carpet of the limousine.
You can get a clean round bullet-hole in glass, but not in a floorboard.
Tom jammed the accelerator down to the floorboard and the jet car fairly leaped ahead.
They drew up to it fast, but his foot automatically eased up on the floorboard pedal until the girl spoke sharply.
A little creaking of a floorboard, a vague, misty blur almost at his side, and still Lee saved his fire.
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What does floorboard mean?
A floorboard is one of the usually wooden planks that make up a floor.
It usually refers to a board of plywood used to make a subfloor—the rough floor beneath a finished floor. Many houses are constructed using floorboards to create a subfloor, which is then often covered with materials like hardwood, carpet, tile, linoleum, or some form of laminate flooring.
The word floorboard means something else in the context of vehicles—it refers to the floor of a car or truck.
This sense of the word is the basis of the slang verb floorboard, meaning to press a vehicle’s accelerator (gas pedal) as far down as possible (all the way to the floor) in order to go as fast as possible. The word floor is more commonly used to mean the same thing. Both terms are often followed by it, as in As soon as the light turned green, I floorboarded it so I could get way ahead of all the other cars.
Example: I pried up a loose floorboard hoping to find treasure under, but there was just a lot of dust and dirt.
Where does floorboard come from?
The first records of the word floorboard come from the 1880s. The word board is commonly used to refer to a thin plank of wood.
In movies, people are always hiding things—or finding things hidden—under the floorboards, like stashes of money or secret letters. Sometimes, there’s even a secret room under the floorboards that’s used to hide people from the bad guys, who are often shown walking on the floorboards and causing dust to fall on the people who are trying to stay quietly hidden below.
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How is floorboard used in real life?
Floorboards are a common part of most houses. When people use the word, it’s usually in the context of construction, renovation, or floorboards that squeak too much.
If we step on the wrong floorboard our daughter wakes up crying.
Morning full of earthquakes? She’s still asleep.
— Jonathan Gonzalez (@JonathanNBCLA) July 30, 2020
Science fact #587: the volume of a creaking floorboard will magnify ten fold if there's a sleeping child nearby.
— Tim Koster (@authortimkoster) August 7, 2020
mom found really old newspapers hidden under the floorboards in the bathroom pic.twitter.com/dMUuxRFDsa
— lea wea (@biggaygengar) October 9, 2019
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True or False?
When floorboard is used as a slang term, the phrase floorboard it! means the same thing as floor it!
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