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floorer|ˈflɔərə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who or that which floors.
1. a. One who or that which brings down to the floor or ground; esp. a knock-down blow.
1795Potter Dict. Cant (ed. 2), Floorers, fellows who throw persons down, after which their companions..rob them in the act of lifting them up. 1819Moore Tom Crib's Mem. (ed. 3) 59 Singling him from all her flash adorers, Shines in his hits, and thunders in his floorers. 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph., Acharnians ii. ii. 33 Strike, O strike the precious rascal! He shall have a floorer dealt him!
b. In the game of skittles, a throw with the first of three balls which floors all the pins.
1881Cassell's Bk. Sports 128 The only play that will secure a floorer is to throw the ball with a good round-handed swing, imparting to the ball what in billiards would be called a ‘side’, and so that the edge of the ball alights on the right-handed shoulder of the front pin. 1928Daily Express 31 Mar. 3/4 A scroll on which are inscribed the names of members who have scored floorers. 1930A. P. Herbert Water Gipsies xxi, A stranger to the game could not have told how it happened, but in less than a second the frame was clear—not one pin standing—a ‘floorer’. 1960Observer 17 Jan. 3/5 A chap..said he had done nineteen floorers in a row.
2. Something which floors in a figurative sense (see floor v. 3), e.g. unexpected news of an unpleasant nature, a decisive argument or retort, a question which utterly embarrasses one, a poser. Also in university slang, a question or paper too hard to be mastered.
1837T. Hook Jack Brag xxii, ‘Well’, said Jack, ‘that's a floorer, and no mistake’. 1867J. Hatton Tallants of B. lviii, This case is a floorer to me. 1870Brewer Dict. Phrase & Fable, Floorer, In the University we say, ‘That paper or question was a floorer’. 1875M. E. Braddon Hostages to Fortune xiv. 227, I didn't know the news would be such a floorer. |