floorboard
- noun
- /ˈflɔːrˌbɔrd/
- Wilbur laughed, banged the dashboard, and tromped his feet on the floorboard.
- feet on the floorboard
- car's floorboard
- creak of a floorboard
But nevertheless, I drove with my panel on the floorboards.
- But nevertheless, I drove with my panel on the floorboards.
- It's either foot on the accelerator smashed to the floorboard, or the foot on the brakes with an abrupt halt, slammed on the brakes, slammed.
- Well, this one had a little bulb on the floorboard that you had to pump like a, like a water water gun.
Examples
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The shotgun, now on the floorboard, had rolled to a resting place against her feet.
Fiction book (1993) -
Her feet started beating the floorboard of the car.
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I placed the box on the floorboard between my feet and held up the meat.
Fiction book (1997) -
When you drop it, leave the keys on the floorboard.
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I wanted to crawl into the floorboard of the truck and hide.
Blog text (33) -
Red balloons were shifting around in the floorboard at his feet.
Fiction book (1998) -
A sack of kola nuts lay on the floorboard of the Range Rover.
Fiction book (1997) -
She had heard the sound of the big ones coming, it scared her so she rolled the windows up, locked the doors, and hid in the floorboard of the truck.
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We couldn't afford to be caught with a car full of narcotics, so we had a backup plan in the form of a hole punched in the floorboard of our car.
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I placed the box on the floorboard between my feet while driving.
Synonyms
The flat surface at the bottom of a room, building, or natural area
A small space under a seat where you put your feet, often in a car
A narrow board to rest your feet on, often on trains
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Floorboard is also used for the flat part under people's feet in a car because that part works like a small floor and is still floor + board. So a car's floorboard is the flat surface where passengers put their feet.