floorboard
noun/ˈflɔːbɔːd/
/ˈflɔːrbɔːrd/
- 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
- …
- lift
- lift up
- creak
- beneath the floorboards
- under the floorboards
- underneath the floorboards
- …
- a gap between the floorboards
- a gap in the floorboards
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- [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).
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