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Definition of floorboard noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

floorboard

noun
 
/ˈflɔːbɔːd/
 
/ˈflɔːrbɔːrd/
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  1. a long flat piece of wood in a wooden floor
    • bare/polished floorboards
    • The money was hidden under the floorboards.
    Extra Examples
    • She could hear voices through the gaps in the floorboards.
    • The wooden floorboards creaked as he walked down the corridor.
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • wooden
    • bare
    • polished
    verb + floorboard
    • lift
    • lift up
    floorboard + verb
    • creak
    preposition
    • beneath the floorboards
    • under the floorboards
    • underneath the floorboards
    phrases
    • a gap between the floorboards
    • a gap in the floorboards
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  2. [usually singular] (North American English)
    (also floor British and North American English)
    the bottom surface of a vehicle
    • a car floorboard
    • He had his foot to the floorboard (= was going very fast).
See floorboard in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

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