hoverboard
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- noun
- /ˈhʌvərbɔrd/
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hoverboard
- In the movie, the main character zoomed through the streets on a hoverboard that floated in mid-air.
Examples
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We got letters from kids all over the world wanting to know, "Can I have a hoverboard?
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The Back to the Future II hoverboards
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Engineers have three years left to deliver the hoverboard promised to us by Back to the Future II.
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The Hendo hoverboard, I saw that, and I got so excited.
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No time machines, no hoverboards, no flying cars.
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After seeing the hoverboard chase in "Back to the Future II," he must have realized that people would someday want effortless urban transportation.
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But before director Robert Zemeckis could film the scene, the crew practiced their hoverboard stunts in fields and studio lots.
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In the 1989 flick Back to the Future: Part II, Marty McFly travels to the far-off year of 2015 and gets roped up in a thrilling hoverboard chase with a gang of bionic hooligans.
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The futuristic hoverboard allows riders to glide effortlessly above the ground.
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After years of development, the company finally unveiled a functional hoverboard that truly hovers above the ground.
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Etymology
Hoverboard comes from the parts hover ('float' or 'hang in the air') and board ('a flat thing you stand on'), and it makes you think of the flying boards in films that glide above the ground, so a hoverboard is a board meant to float above the ground.