overboard

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   from on board a vessel into the water

   they dropped their garbage overboard

2. 2
   adv

   to extremes

   I went overboard to please the in-laws.

3. 3
   adv

   Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.

   It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.

4. 4
   adv

   Excessively; too much.

   They really went overboard with the party preparations.

5. 5
   verb

   To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.

   ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’

6. 6
   adj

   Outside of a boat; in the water.

7. 7
   verb

   To cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.

Etymology

From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.