Meaning & use
floorboard
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A long wooden board that forms part of a floor, or the floor area of a vehicle.
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One of the floorboards creaked every time someone walked past the bedroom.
He dropped his phone and it rolled under the floorboard of the car.
A note on using this word
In vehicles, 'floorboard' commonly refers to the area beneath the pedals, as in the phrase 'floor it,' meaning to press the accelerator to the floorboard.
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