Usually means: Excessively; going beyond reasonable limits.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. overboard: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. overboard: Merriam-Webster
  3. overboard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. overboard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. overboard: Collins English Dictionary
  6. overboard: Vocabulary.com
  7. Overboard, overboard: Wordnik
  8. overboard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. overboard: Wiktionary
  10. overboard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. overboard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. overboard: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Overboard, overboard: Dictionary.com
  14. overboard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. overboard: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Overboard (comic strip), Overboard (film), Overboard, Overboard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Overboard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. overboard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. overboard: Rhymezone
  20. Overboard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. overboard: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. overboard: FreeDictionary.org
  23. overboard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. overboard: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. overboard: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overboard: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. overboard: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Overboard: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. OVERBOARD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overboard)

▸ adjective:  (nautical) Outside of a boat; in the water.
▸ adverb:  Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
▸ adverb:  Excessively; too much.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.

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overbow, extra, overwater, over the top, oversparred, outré, overfar, over-canvassed, oversheeted, off the deep end, more...

Opposite:
underboard

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over the top, more...

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thrown overboard, went overboard, Man overboard, Going Overboard, gone overboard, more...

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Similar:
overbow, extra, overwater, over the top, oversparred, outré, overfar, over-canvassed, oversheeted, off the deep end, more...

Opposite:
underboard

Types:
over the top, more...

Phrases:
thrown overboard, went overboard, Man overboard, Going Overboard, gone overboard, throw overboard, throwing overboard, threw overboard, goes overboard, throws overboard, go overboard, to throw overboard, more...

Colors:
    teal,     aqua,     turquoise,     seafoam,     azure, more...



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