overboard English

Meaning overboard meaning

What does overboard mean?

Definitions in simple English

overboard Preposition

— If someone or something goes overboard, it goes over the side of a boat. When they threw the cut fish overboard, the sharks attacked. Don't drop any garbage overboard, please.

overboard

— adverb from on board a vessel into the water they dropped their garbage overboard

— adverb to extremes he went overboard to please his in-laws

Synonyms overboard synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as overboard?

overboard English » English

overside

Topics overboard topics

What do people use overboard to talk about?

Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Jump

• What words refer to jumping from one place to another place?
  jump up/down/off of/onto/out of the way bound spring pounce dive jump overboard somersault

Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall

• What words refer to falling into water?
  sink fall overboard plunge into fall into plop plunk

Physical actions Have, be with Keep something

Throw away

• What words are used for throwing something away?
  throw away throw aside toss junk jettison discard eliminate heave reject expel dispose of cast off throw overboard get rid of rid yourself of dump clean out purge smoke out unload delete

Examples overboard examples

How do I use overboard in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Man overboard!

I went overboard about the Beatles when I was young.

He fell overboard and was drowned.

Tom jumped overboard.

Tom threw the anchor overboard.

Be careful not to fall overboard.

John sometime goes overboard in drinking.

Throw them overboard.

Tom nearly fell overboard.

I jumped overboard.

Movie subtitles

It could crawl overboard on its own!

Vakulinchuk's overboard!

Out with 'em or I'll throw 'em overboard.

Overboard?

I once saw six men washed overboard on one wave.

Was your pappy overboard with you, too?

Maybe he throw him overboard.

Wave come at night and wash him overboard.

Man overboard!

I jumped overboard and swam ashore.

She was washed overboard.

Throw him overboard.

Greetings, my little minx. I hope I find you well and that your little pal hasn't fallen overboard.

A box drops on your skull, a wave washes you overboard.

The meat could crawl overboard on its own!

Vakulinchuk is overboard!

Why don't you throw me overboard?

The ship started to sink and we both dived overboard. - Didn't we, Stanley?

When the man looks at me, I want to jump overboard.

I threw a brandy bottle overboard once, empty one, off the coast of Madagascar.

Somebody's fallen overboard!

If your ship's on fire, you jump overboard.

We sort of went overboard, didn't we?

Watch. This is where the camera goes overboard.

Heave the dead overboard!

Radio for Miss Kay Arnold. Woman overboard.

Woman overboard.

Hey, there's a woman overboard.

Oh, he's certainly gone overboard for you, hasn't he?

A man overboard!

Lookit, Larry, you ain't going overboard for your wife, are you?

Falling overboard.

I hope I find you well and that your little pal hasn't fallen overboard.

And if that isn't enough, you play ball with a guy who'll dump you overboard as soon as he's elected.

Come on, let's get this spar overboard before that ship back there climbs our tail.

News and current affairs

Barroso Overboard?

The DR-CAFTA pays lip service to international labor standards as enshrined in the International Labor Organization's core labor rights, but promptly throws them overboard.

During the 1970's, Germans went overboard, confusing capitalism with self-service shops.

The captain, struck with revulsion, grabbed her, dragged her up to the deck of the ship, and threw her overboard.

And the question then becomes whether the crew of the struggling rescue vessel will decide that they can stabilize the situation only through a once-unthinkable action - throwing someone overboard to lighten the vessel and save the rest.

After Japan acceded to Chinese pressure and released a captured Chinese trawler in September 2010, China went overboard and demanded an apology from Japan, rattling the Japanese establishment.