boatload
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Similarly, kick the bucket, fly off the handle, take in ` deceive, 'comic book, green thumb, etc.
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- noun The number of passengers or the amount of cargo that a boat can hold.
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Similarly, kick the bucket, fly off the handle, take in ` deceive, 'comic book, green thumb, etc.
— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 2 -
Lieutenant Piper and I landed on the island with the first boatload, and after disembarking the howitzer we fired two or three shots to let the Indians know we had artillery with us, then advanced down the island with the whole of my command, which had arrived in the mean time; all of the men were deployed as skirmishers except a small detachment to operate the howitzer.
— She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories -
Two men compete for the favors of a bored girl who wishes the hell with both of them — a spare sexual isosceles which is nicely symbolized in clean, stripped images of sail, sky, and water which group and re-group in triangles and trapeziums of gray and white as the boatload of trouble skims trimly across the lake.
— 3 1/2 -
After Anna ` s son died, her psychiatrist, Christine Eroshevich allegedly wrote prescriptions for a boatload of drugs.
— CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2009 -
They sold a boatload, there were many truckloads of generators, 5,000 generators at about $400 a pop, right?
— CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2003
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/ (bōtˈlōdˌ)/
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