Boat

Quick meaning: Boat is a noun meaning (poker slang) A full house.

Meaning

(poker slang) A full house.

More Meanings

1. A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
2. (informal) A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.
3. (Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.
4. (cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
5. A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
6. (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

Example Sentences

a stone boat; a gravy boat

Near-synonyms: land yacht, sled

He claimed to be broke but he always drove that ridiculous boat.

It creates 4 blocks, a boat, and a glider every 768 generations.

Word Forms

• boats
• boating
• boated

Synonyms for boat

Depending on context, synonyms include craft, ship, vessel, sled, sauceboat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sauceboat, dinghy, yacht, dhow, motorboat, skiff.

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