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• boat — 1. n. a big shoe. (See also gunboats.) □ Whose boat is that under the coffee table? □ 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 …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• boat — A large automobile, especially an older luxury model. I couldn t imagine having to parallel park a boat like that...but my Suburban s a piece of cake …   Dictionary of american slang

• boat — A large automobile, especially an older luxury model. I couldn t imagine having to parallel park a boat like that...but my Suburban s a piece of cake …   Dictionary of american slang

• Boat people — is a term that usually refers to illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate en masse in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made rendering them unseaworthy and unsafe. The term came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass… …   Wikipedia

• Boat building — Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.Parts* Bow the front and generally sharp end of the hull. It is designed to reduce the… …   Wikipedia

• boat — boat, vessel, ship, craft are comparable when they denote a floating structure designed to carry persons or goods over water. Boat is sometimes used as a general designation of such a structure but more specifically it is applicable to a small,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Boat-billed Heron — Conservation status Le …   Wikipedia

• boat shoe — boat′ shoe n. clo a moccasin like shoe with a rubber sole that provides a firm hold on the deck of a boat • Etymology: 1990–95 …   From formal English to slang

• boat shoe — n. a shoe, usually in a style somewhat like a moccasin, with a rubber sole suitable for walking on the deck of a boat …   English World dictionary

• Boat People (film) — Infobox Film name = Boat People caption = director = Ann Hui producer = Xia Meng writer = Dai An Ping starring = George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau music = Law Wing fai cinematography = Wong Chung kei editing = Kin Kin distributor =… …   Wikipedia