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boat noun- a car, especially a large car US, 1914
- With a mean boat like the one you got, you’ll be a menace to public safety. When you get snozzled, it’ll be even worse. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 23, 1947
- a prison transfer; a group of prisoners being transferred; the bus used to transfer them US, 1956
- — Frank Prewitt and Francis Schaeffer, Vacaville Vocabulary, 1961–1962
- When I heard I was on a boat to Comstock, I knew you’d be here. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 265, 1967
- Have you anything to say before we send you away / On the next Sing Sing boat? — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 59, 1976
- a non-prostitute who flaunts her sexual availability to hotel customers UK
- “There’s a kind of girl who comes in dressed to the nines,” says a West End hotel manager. “We call them ‘Boats’ – Bordering On A Tart”. — The Times, 16 April 2005
- phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust US
A shortened form of LOVE BOAT- With a police officer on every corner directing traffic, dealers simply lined the curbs along 11th Street and silently formed the word “boat,” street slang for PCP, with lips pursued like a fish. — Washington Post, p. B1, 29 July 1984
- — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 24, 1993
- heroin US
- — Peter Johnson, Dictionary of Street Alcohol and Drug Terms, p. 24, 1993
- a combination of marijuana and phencyclidine, the recreational drug known as PCP or angel dust UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 293, 2003
- in poker, a hand consisting of three of a kind and a pair US
Conventionally known as a “full house”. - — Jim Glenn, Programmed Poker, p. 155, 1981
- a large shipment of MDMA, the drug commonly known as ecstasy US
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Vancouver, British Columbia, has noted an increase in the supply of seized MDMA, with 1,000 tablet shipments, known as “boat” shipments, the most common. — Microgram Bulletin (DEA), p. 11, January 2004
▶ off the boat said of immigrants, especially black people UK- Alphonse isn’t from the South End, I think he’s off the boat. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 39, 2001
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