- over the side of a boat or a ship into the water
- to fall/jump overboard
- Huge waves washed him overboard.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryOverboard is used with these verbs:- dump
- fall
- jump
- …
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Idioms
See overboard in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo overboard
- (informal) to be too excited or enthusiastic about something or about doing something
- Don't go overboard on fitness.
throw somebody/something overboard
- to get rid of somebody/something that you think is not useful
- He threw all his old friends overboard once he was promoted.
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