Hypertext Webster Gateway: "overboard"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Overboard \O"ver*board`\, adv.
Over the side of a ship; hence, from on board of a ship, into
the water; as, to fall overboard.

{To throw overboard}, to discard; to abandon, as a dependent
or friend.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

overboard
adv 1: to extremes; "he went overboard to please his in-laws"
2: from on board a vessel into the water; "they dropped their
garbage overboard"


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