boat

Less common meanings

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   sauce dishnouncountable

   A dish or container shaped like a small boat, such as one made for holding gravy.

   Like a little bowl shaped to look like a tiny boat.

   She filled the silver boat with warm gravy and set it down.

   He passed the little boat of melted butter across the table.

   UsageOften gravy boat.

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   big carnouncolloquialcountable

   A very big, heavy car that many people think is far too large.

   That old boat barely fits into the parking space.

   His uncle drives a huge boat that guzzles gas.

   UsageUsually a joke about a car that is too big.

   Similartank, barge, gas-guzzler

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   refugeesnouncolloquialAustraliancountable

   In Australia, the boats carrying refugees who arrive by sea, or the refugees themselves.

   Many voters wanted the government to stop the boats.

   Everyone at the barbecue had an opinion about the government's plan to stop the boats.

   UsageUsually the boats: stop the boats.

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   full housenounslangcountable

   In a card game, a hand with three cards of one value and two cards of another.

   Like holding a matching group of three cards plus a matching pair.

   Her boat beat his two pairs and she took the pot.

   He filled up on the river and won the hand with a boat.

   UsagePlayers' word for a full house.

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   verbobsoletetransitive

   To send a convict overseas to a prison colony by ship.

   Troy was 'boated' for seven years after being found guilty of burglary and robbery.

   2021, Graham Seal, CondemnedHere, boated means sent away by ship to a distant prison colony.

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   noun

   In chemistry, one of the shapes a six-carbon ring can take, curved a little like a boat.
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    noun

    In the Game of Life, a small fixed pattern made of five living cells around one dead cell, shaped like a boat.