floorboard

Etymology

floor + board

noun

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

verb

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

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