Meanings
plural floorers
- Someone who floors, lays flooring.
- UKIn skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
- informalA knock-down blow.
- 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).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch vloerder
- vloerdersomeone who floors
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