floorboard

noun

floor·​board ˈflȯr-ˌbȯrd 

1

: a board in a floor

2

: the floor of an automobile

Examples of floorboard in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The first spirit asks for a spicy home brew under the floorboards. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2026

That might be counterintuitive — vanishingly few of us have killed someone and then buried them under the floorboards, after all. — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2026

Stepping forward, my right foot suddenly plunges through the floorboards, soft and wet with rot. — Sam Kestenbaum, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

At the moment, the good detective is strutting around the float, kicking the wheels and pounding the floorboards. — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for floorboard

• abhorred
• aboard
• accord
• adored
• afford
• award
• baseboard
• billboard
• blackboard
• boxboard
• breadboard
• broadsword