floorer

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noun

Someone who floors, lays flooring.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounfloorer (plural floorers)

plural floorers

  1. Someone who floors, lays flooring.
  2. UKIn skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
  3. informalA knock-down blow.
  4. informalA decisive retort.
  5. informalA question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
  6. in compoundsrareA building with the specified number of floors.

    You enter a skyscraper in an American city. The “theater” is a ten-floorer, the floors occupied by the theater running consecutively upward from ground. […] There are 10 auditoriums, one above the other in this 10-floorer, and in each auditorium the show is the same.

    1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The Film Daily, page 238

Origin

From floor + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix).

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Translations

Dutch vloerder
  • vloerdersomeone who floors

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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

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