hoverboard
hoverboard Lexical Profile
hoverboard Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A motorized, self-balancing personal transporter consisting of two motorized wheels connected to a pair of articulated pads on which the rider stands and controls speed and direction by leaning.
"The teenager glided smoothly down the sidewalk on his new electric hoverboard."
A levitating board resembling a wheel-less skateboard that floats slightly above the ground, originally a concept in science fiction and later developed as an experimental prototype.
"In the futuristic film, the protagonist escapes his pursuers by riding a levitating hoverboard across the town square."
• verb
To ride or travel on a hoverboard.
"Several students hoverboarded across the campus plaza between their morning classes."
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the 1980s as a compound of 'hover' and 'board', the term was popularized by the 1989 science-fiction film Back to the Future Part II before being adopted in the 2010s for wheeled self-balancing scooters.
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