boatload

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We are also FED UP with easy talk and I therefore respectfully suggest that at the news that another boatload is about to arrive, you personally attend at the landing spot and order the immigrants back.

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  1. noun The number of passengers or the amount of cargo that a boat can hold.

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  • What kind of deal can you offer This whole boatload is a small morsel for the likes of you. —  Centaur Aisle
  • They'd probably want him to come straight home for a boatload of tests. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2007
  • Any pol that answers such a question without knowing what context to frame the answer in is asking for a boatload of trouble. —  TalkLeft
  • Maybe the white half of Zero is showing its racism towards Mexicans ... as though they're too damned stupid to buy full auto AK-47's from the source at wholesale by the boatload, as opposed to buying them in the U.S. through the red tape, background checking, cross-border transport difficulties, and insane markup, as he proclaims. —  Latest Articles
  • I think I am going to need a boatload (or at least a dressload). —  Drudge Retort
 

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