Sekirov Dictionary

floorboard

noun 2
verb 1
forms 3

noun2

•
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
•
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

verb1

•
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

forms

floorboarded · floorboarding · floorboards

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