Floorboard

Alternative forms

• floor-board

Full definition of floorboard

Noun

1. Any of the long boards laid over joists to make a floor.
2. The floor of a car.
• 1999, The Crusade for Justice: Chicano Militancy and the Government's War on Dissent, by Ernesto B. Vigil, page 212The officers said they found two rifles in the car, one on the front floorboard of the vehicle and another on the rear floorboard.

Verb

1. To sink the gas pedal into the floorboard of the car, in order to bring the car to the highest possible speed.
• 1953, Gone Girl, by Ross MacdonaldI floorboarded the gas pedal and cut over sharply to the right, threatening the Cadillac's fenders and its driver's life.