1882. Daily Telegraph, 16 Nov. The odds were, nevertheless, floored from an unexpected quarter. [[30]]
1889. Echo, 24 Jan. As the odds betted on Miss Jessie II. were easily floored by Marsden.
2. (drunkards’).—To finish; to get outside of. E.g., ‘I floored three half-pints and a nip before breakfast.’
1837. Punch, 31 Jan. Dear Bill, this stone jug.… Is still the same snug, Free-and-easy old hole, Where Macheath met his blowens, and Wylde floored his bowl.
18(?). Macmillan’s Magazine (quoted in Century Dict.). I have a few bottles of old wine left: we may as well floor them.
3. (university).—To pluck; to plough (q.v.).
To floor a paper, lesson, examination, examiner, etc., verb. phr. (university).—To answer every question; to master; to prove oneself superior to the occasion.
1852. Bristed, Five Years in an English University, p. 12. Somehow I nearly floored the paper.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford. I’ve floored my Little Go.
To floor one’s licks, verb. phr. (common).—To surpass one’s self; to cut-around (q.v.).