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overboard
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"over the side of a ship," Old English ofor bord , from over + bord "side of a ship" (see board (n.2)). Figurative sense of "excessively, beyond one's means" (especially in phrase go overboard ) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. to extremes; "he went overboard to please his in-laws" from on board a vessel into the water; "they dropped their garbage overboard"
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Overboard is Chip Dunham 's daily newspaper comic strip about a shipload of incompetent pirates . It debuted in 1990 and is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate . Overboard derives much of its humor from having its characters anachronistically placed ...
Usage examples of overboard.
He remembered the time a drunken deckhand on a Canadian hydrofoil had threatened to throw some passengers overboard.
So they all pitched in to help take down the mainmast, laying it out along the decking, folding up the sails and spars and tucking them away, and tossing overboard the extra supplies they could afford to let go.
I had planned to go overboard in the night, quiet-like, but when I saw ye trapped by the rail I just upped on the mainsheet and swung over like a capuchin on a vine.
It may be worth our while, however, to note that many modern mystics are not monists, and that the supposed inseparable connection between Mysticism and Monism is being thrown overboard.
BURIED TREASURE After the escape of the girl Barunda and Ninaka had fallen out over that affair and the division of the treasure, with the result that the panglima had slipped a knife between the ribs of his companion and dropped the body overboard.
Two of the parse tubes together with their diapson crystals had been torn free and lost overboard.
This Plater began to shovel overboard, working with furious energy, as though combating a hated enemy.
He wore them a whole week, and it was only when he began systematically to refurnish the radio shack that he threw them overboard.
The least he would have expected from her was a letter from a screever, slightly worn and faded and perhaps even somewhat tearstained, purporting to come from the captain of the vessel from which her imagined husband had been swept overboard and to testify to this tragic event.
He assumed that John Shipton, having been caught in an attempt to hide aboard the yacht, had leaped overboard.
It was the same route that Shipton had taken after his fake leap overboard.
It had just occurred to him that Tom Too might have become alarmed and slain the three captives, shoving their bodies overboard.
Again and again she flung out the coverlet into the surrounding water, and each time she hauled it in, the pattering leks reflected her excitement in the catch, which she sorted and slung either overboard or into the well of the boat.
When the two Trackers shook off their stupefication and started for her, a tentacle came across the railing, dragged them overboard and left them thrashing in the water alongside.
It was evident that this chest had been thrown overboard from some dismasted vessel driven towards the island, and that, in the hope that it would reach the land, where they might afterwards find it, the passengers had taken the precaution to buoy it up by means of this floating apparatus.