floorer

English

Etymology

floor +‎ -er

Noun

floorer (plural floorers)

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 combination, rare) A building with the specified number of floors.
   • 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:

     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.

Translations

someone who floors

• Dutch: vloerder (nl) m

Anagrams

• forlore, refloor