overboard Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb to extremes
    • he went overboard to please his in-laws
  2. adverb from on board a vessel into the water
    • they dropped their garbage overboard

WordNet


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

Webster 1913