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n. - A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor).

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  • Despite claiming he had made his money mainly from the buying and selling of used cars, through a pyramid game called "matchboard" and from providing security for a...
  • The glazed, shiny look of matchboard is still in my eyes.
  • Chopped up into new little offices with matchboard siding; you could spit through the walls!
  • Sometimes the wounded would have to wait for days, huddled around stoves in matchboard shanties at the edge of the airfield or in the
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