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  • noun A mat that is laid on the floor.

Etymologies

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floor +‎ mat

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Examples

  • I'm a little concerned, he's going all "traditional," which means I may have to sleep on some kind of floormat with no insulation above and beyond a thin screen of paper.

    Texas sucks and other thoughts barbylon 2006

  • I'm a little concerned, he's going all "traditional," which means I may have to sleep on some kind of floormat with no insulation above and beyond a thin screen of paper.

    Texas sucks and other thoughts barbylon 2006

  • I was referring to an October 2009 recall that focused on possible floormat-jamming-the-throttle-pedal problems that did include Lexus models, and you are referring to the most recent recall that involved the throttle pedal itself, and did not include any Lexus models.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Conflict of Interest? 2010

  • The federal government has opened an investigation into possible floormat gas-pedal entrapment in the 2010 Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan.

    Feds open floormat-entrapment probe on 2010 Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan 2010

  • • Feds open floormat-entrapment probe on 2010 Ford Fusion, Mercury Milano: The agency "has received three complaints of accelerator pedals being trapped by unsecured 'all weather' floor mats."

    OPM extends long-term care to same-sex partners 2010

  • And you want to drive fast, just get through it, but the more you push the gas pedal towards the floormat the more your heart fishtails through the intersection the more likely you are to spin out of control find yourself wrecked in it- and being wrecked is not pretty.

    First Snow (second edit) « Inky 2010

  • The investigation was opened Friday and after car research site Edmunds. com experienced floormat entrapment on one of its Fusions.

    Feds open floormat-entrapment probe on 2010 Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan 2010

  • His grip was slick with sweat and the gun slid out of his flailing fingers and thunked to the dirty floormat.

    Highborn Yvonne Navarro 2010

  • As her adventures in activism with the C (I) A move along, Anna finally begins to establish her own real identity, and becomes less of the floormat and more the stomping, steel-tipped boot.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

  • Anna (Melonie Diaz) is a rather homely, low self-esteemic human floormat.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2007

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