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Floorer

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who floors, lays flooring.
  2. 2
    In skittles, the act of knocking down all of the skittles in one throw. UK
  3. 3
    A knock-down blow. informal
  4. 4
    A decisive retort. informal
  5. 5
    A question that one cannot easily answer; a poser. informal
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  1. 6
    A building with the specified number of floors. in-compounds, rare

    "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."

Etymology

From floor + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 6).

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