boarded up
board up
To cover parts of a building (often the windows) with wooden planks. That hurricane is bearing down on us, so we need to leave town as soon as we finish boarding up the windows. I can't believe someone finally bought that old, abandoned house—it's been boarded up for years.
See also: board, up
boarded up
Covered with wooden planks (especially over the windows), as of an abandoned building. I can't believe someone finally bought that old, boarded up house—it's been empty for years.
See also: board, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- board up
- eye of the hurricane
- hurricane
- the eye of the hurricane
- wooden top
- plank over
- two
- take the wooden spoon
- get the wooden spoon
- get, win, take, etc. the wooden spoon