overboard

adverb

1. over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.

Idioms

2. go overboard, to go to extremes, especially in regard to approval or disapproval of a person or thing: I think the critics went overboard in panning that new show.

adverb

1. from on board a vessel into the water
2. go overboard informal
   1. to be extremely enthusiastic
   2. to go to extremes
3. throw overboard to reject or abandon

adv.“over the side of a ship,” Old English ofor bord, from over + bord “side of a ship” (see board (n.2)). Figurative sense of “excessively, beyond one’s means” (especially in phrase go overboard) first attested 1931 in Damon Runyon. see go overboard.