overboard

Overboard is defined as over the side of a ship and into the water, or being too excited and doing too much.

(adverb)

  1. An example of overboard is a how someone’s sunglasses fall when someone drops them off the side of the cruise ship; dropped overboard.
  2. An example of overboard is extravagantly celebrating a coworker’s birthday; going overboard with a celebration.

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See overboard in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adverb

  1. over a ship's side
  2. from a ship into the water

Origin: ME ouer borde < OE ofor bord: see over & board

See overboard in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb
Over or as if over the side of a boat or ship.

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