boat

boat

slang
1. slang In poker, a full house (a hand consisting of three cards of one rank and two cards of another). I thought for sure I would win with a boat in my hand, but Tom had four of a kind and won the whole pot.
2. slang An especially large shoe. Tom, quit leaving these boats of yours in front of the door when you come in the house! I keep tripping over them.
3. slang An especially large car. I bought my grandpa's old boat off him for $500, but it's a pain trying to drive it through traffic.
4. slang The face. The term comes from rhyming slang in which "boat" is short for "boat race," which rhymes with "face." Primarily heard in UK. Lovely boat on that gal, eh? I'm going to go talk to her.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

boat

1. n. a big shoe. (see also gunboats.) Those boats are special made, in fact.
2. n. a big car; a full-size car. I don’t want to drive a big boat like that.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (one's) boat comes in
  • a rising tide lifts all boats
  • be in the same boat
  • boat
  • boat anchor
  • boat race
  • boy in the boat
  • burn (one's) boats
  • burn one's bridges
  • burn one's bridges/boats, to
  • burn your boats
  • don't rock the boat
  • dreamboat
  • float (one's) boat
  • float somebody's boat
  • float someone's boat
  • fresh off the boat
  • full boat
  • gunboat
  • in the same boat
  • in the same boat as, to be
  • just off the boat
  • little man in the boat
  • luff up
  • miss the boat
  • miss the boat/bus, to
  • moor up
  • not float (one's) boat
  • off the boat
  • on a slow boat to China
  • push the boat out
  • rock the boat
  • rock the boat, to
  • slow boat to China
  • steer away from (someone or something)
  • steer into (something)
  • steer through (something)
  • steer toward (something)
  • wait for (one's) boat to come in
  • whatever floats (one's) boat
  • whatever floats your boat
  • whatever turns you on
  • when (one's) boat comes in
  • when (one's) ship comes in
  • when your ship/boat comes in
References in classic literature
The red light was gone, the shudder was gone, and his gaze, which had come back to the boat for a moment, travelled away again.
Always watching his face, the girl instantly answered to the action in her sculling; presently the boat swung round, quivered as from a sudden jerk, and the upper half of the man was stretched out over the stern.
Our Mutual Friend
In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely across Stubb's bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
Aye, aye, I thought as much, soliloquized Stubb, when the boats diverged, as soon as I clapt eye on 'em, I thought so.
Moby Dick I LXVII
By and by, through the glass the stranger's boats and manned mast-heads proved her a whale-ship.
Moby Dick LXVIII CXXXIV
Hunt was perceived by those in the other boats, and they hastened to his assistance.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
I did not stop to see what had become of the small boat, but sprang to the jib-sheet.
The Sea Wolf
"Why, our boat's gone off!" they replied in an indignant tone.
Three Men In A Boat
As for himself, he was not sure that enough strength remained in his wasted muscles to launch the boat. It was all a gamble.
Burning Daylight
As it is, we'll only be able to catch one boat, for while we are tackling that one it will be up nets and away with the rest."
Tales of the Fish Patrol
They had not been long put off with the boat, when we perceived them all coming on shore again; but with this new measure in their conduct, which it seems they consulted together upon, viz.
Robinson Crusoe
He dipped his hand in the water over the boat's gunwale, and said, smiling with that softened air upon him which was not new to me:
Great Expectations
Nothing, in all probability, but the proximity of the American trading post, kept these land pirates from making a good prize of the bull boat and all its contents.
Adventures of Captain Bonneville USA in the Rocky Mountains and
My boat's crew, leaning over the looms of their oars, stared and listened as if at the play.
Mirror of the Sea
Dorothy got in, Toto in her arms, and sat on the bottom of the boat just in front of the mast.
The Road to Oz