floorboard
Noun
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Noun
floorboard (plural floorboards)
- Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
- The floor of a car.
- 1999, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, by Ernesto B. Vigil, 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.
- 1999, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, by Ernesto B. Vigil, page 212
- French: planche
- Russian: полови́ца
floorboard (floorboards, present participle floorboarding; past and past participle floorboarded)
- To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
- 1953, Gone Girl, by Ross Macdonald
- I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.
- 1953, Gone Girl, by Ross Macdonald
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