floorboard

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noun

Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.

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Meanings

nounfloorboard (plural floorboards)

plural floorboards · alternative floor-board

  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.

    1976, Vance Bourjaily, “All Quiet on the Middlewestern Front”, in Now Playing at Canterbury, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 364
  2. automotiveThe 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, Ernesto B. Vigil, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, page 212
verbfloorboard (third-person singular simple present floorboards, present participle floorboarding, simple past and past participle floorboarded)

present singular third person floorboards · participle present floorboarding · participle past floorboarded · past floorboarded · alternative floor-board

  1. transitiveTo 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, Ross Macdonald, Gone Girl

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna board in the floor

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Origin

From floor + board.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 地板
  • 地板 (dìbǎn)any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Danish gulvbræt
  • gulvbrætany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Finnish lattialauta
  • lattialautaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
French planche
  • plancheany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
German Diele, Dielenbrett
  • Dieleany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • Dielenbrettany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Hungarian padlódeszka
  • padlódeszkaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Māori papatakahi, papatakatakahi
  • papatakahiany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • papatakatakahiany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Norwegian golvplanke, gulvplanke
  • golvplankeany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • gulvplankeany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Polish deska podłogowa
  • deska podłogowaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Portuguese assoalho
  • assoalhoany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Romanian scândură de dușumea
  • scândură de dușumeaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Russian полови́ца, полова́я доска́
  • полови́ца (polovíca)any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • полова́я доска́ (polovája doská)any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Spanish duela
  • duelaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Swedish golvbräda, golvplanka
  • golvbrädaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • golvplankaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • tiljaany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
Turkish döşeme tahtası, köklemek
  • döşeme tahtasıany of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • köklemekto bring the car to the highest possible speed
Ukrainian підло́гова до́шка, мости́на
  • підло́гова до́шка (pidlóhova dóška)any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
  • мости́на (mostýna)any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor
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APA

floorboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floorboard

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“floorboard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floorboard. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “floorboard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/floorboard.

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