Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US black) a boring individual, one who does not get high adj.¹

2012

Chief Keef ‘Hate Bein’ Sober’ 🎵 On my tour bus we get dumb high you’s a floor boy.

(US black) shoes.

1972

D. Claerbaut Black Jargon in White America 64: floorburners n. shoes; footwear .

(Aus.) a floor-walker in a large store.

1900

Referee (Sydney) 12 Sept. 9/2: A highly proper and pompous party who [...] acts as shopwalker— or floor-flapper, as the vulgar term it.

see shoe-polish under polish n.

see dust v.¹

(US) to attack physically.

1899

Anaconda Standard (MT) 10 Apr. 8/7: You fellows come along and see me give him his trimmings. [...] I’m going to the floor with him right now.

1. drunk.

1900

Sporting Times 12 May 2/1: Twenty-four hours after the first-named had ridden Leamington to victory, the two were ‘on the floor,’ stretched senseless on the sward.

2. beaten.

1937

R. Westerby Wide Boys Never Work (1938) 202: It’s licked you, Jim. You’re on the floor.

3. poor; thus also as n. in cit. 2002 [rhy. sl.].

1914		E. Pugh Cockney At Home 162: Whereas if I answered you, ‘On the floor!’ an’ pulled a face like a farden kite, you’d all ha’ groaned in symperfy.
1938		G. Kersh Night and the City 61: If you’re on the floor, come to me and you’re always sure of a ten-pound note.
1943		R. Llewellyn None But the Lonely Heart 104: ‘I’m on the floor,’ he says. ‘Out of work.’.
1956		‘Charles Raven’ Und. Nights 168: You told me yourself the geezer was on the floor.
1962		F. Norman Guntz 214: He was dead skint and on the floor.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1980		(con. 1930s) Barltrop & Wolveridge Muvver Tongue 18: A hard-up person is [...] ‘on the floor’.
1992		in R. Graef Living Dangerously 110: If it weren’t for his parents he’d be on the floor.
2002		M. Coles More Bible in Cockney 13: I’m gonna bring some great news for all the on-the-floor.

to be (very) drunk.

1818		M.L. Weems Drunkard’s Looking Glass (1929) 60: The drunkard’s looking glass, reflecting a faithful likeness of the drunkard, in sundry very interesting attitudes, [...] as first, when he has only ‘a drop in his eye;’ second, when he is ‘half shaved;’ third, when he is getting ‘a little on the staggers or so;’ and fourth, and fifth, and so on, till he is ‘quite capsized;’ or ‘snug under the table with the dogs,’ and can ‘stick to the floor without holding on.’.
1871		Sportsman (London) ‘Notes on News’ 8 July 4/1: [A] poor fellow who was simply ‘happy’ — one who, in his own opinion, is not drunk until he cannot lie on his back comfortably without holding on to something.

(boxing) to be knocked down and stay down to use up time.

1896

Mirror of Life 10/2: Baker being vastly the better man, Peters taking the ‘flure’ and keeping there till the allotted seconds had expired.