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Definition of "overboard" []

  • Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship. (adverb)
  • Go overboard To go to extremes, especially as a result of enthusiasm. (idiom)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "overboard" in a sentence
  • "The idea that we can stabilize the housing market by tossing all these innocent victims overboard is simply insane."
  • "In The Island of Dr. Moreau, which is based on a novella by H.G. Wells, Braddock (Michael York) is a decent young Englishman who has unaccountably been saved from being thrown overboard from a ship sailing in a remote area of the Pacific by the mysterious Dr. Montgomery (Nigel Davenport)."
  • "Libertarians ought to throw Epstein overboard — and then get started fixing the moral monstrosity that advocates like Epstein embrace."