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floorer en · NOUN

Etymology

From floor + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix).

Meanings

  1. Someone who floors, lays flooring.
  2. (UK) In skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw.
  3. (informal) A knock-down blow.
  4. (informal) A decisive retort.
  5. (informal) A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser.
  6. (in-compounds, rare) A building with the specified number of floors.
    • You enter a skyscraper in an American city. The “theater” is a ten-floorer, the floors occupied by the theater running consecutively upward from ground. […] There are 10 auditoriums, one above the other in this 10-floorer, and in each auditorium the show is the same. 1939, Thomas Oxenbridge, “Cavalcade of Architecture: An Interview with John Eberson”, in The Film Daily Cavalcade 1939, New York, NY: The Film Daily, page 238:

Forms

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Translations (1)

nl vloerder (someone who floors)