Noun Keep your feet on the floor. the floor of a car She lives on the second floor of a five-story building. His office is located on the fourth floor. Verb He floored me with his first punch. The news just floored me. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Not long before it was set to start, the players weren’t on the floor. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2022 Burnside came into the residence bleeding from gunshot wounds and collapsed on the floor, the release stated, and a dog was also grazed in left side behind its left front leg.Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 Without them, there weren’t enough people on the floor to respond to a cardiac arrest. Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2022 All of this while interest rates start rising after resting for more than a decade on (or below) the floor. Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022 Locate a carpet scrap or an inconspicuous spot on the floor, such as the carpet inside a closet. Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2022 What Happens Live host sitting on the floor as his son examined him with play tools. Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022 While school is still in session, Pasha’s classroom is made into a hospital for separatist soldiers: The wounded are placed right on the floor, in between the desks. Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 So, the other woman used the bed, according to court documents, and Banks slept on the floor.al, 7 Sep. 2022
Verb
As for the nine-speed automatic, its chunky shift paddles are part of an incredibly simple arming procedure for its new launch control: Hold the brake pedal, pull back on both paddles, floor the accelerator, release the brakes, and hang on. Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 16 May 2022 The pain clearly lingered for the Argentine, and Charlo pounced with a combination of a right hook to the body and a left to the head to floor Castano for good. Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 15 May 2022 Take out the hard launch and floor it from a 5-mph roll, and the 60-mph trip stretches to 5.9 seconds. Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 27 Apr. 2022 To see this on a screen in 2018 was enough to floor you. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Apr. 2022 Still, for those who want to floor the gas pedal, several production EVs have set speed records that handily surpass most combustion engines. Jaclyn Trop, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2022 Return hips to floor, but do not lower your right leg. Christa Sgobba, SELF, 2 Jan. 2022 Lizzo regularly talks about the importance of body positivity, and she's also known to completely floor people with her onstage performances. Korin Miller, Health.com, 1 Oct. 2021 The Eagles put the pedal to floor right from the start, and Independence appeared a bit intimidated. Joe Magill, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English flor, from Old English flōr; akin to Old High German fluor meadow, Latin planus level, and perhaps to Greek planasthai to wander
First Known Use
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1