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floorboard

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noun
  1. 1

    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.
  2. 2

    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.
verb
  1. 1

    To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.transitive

    • I floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.

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