Boatload

Quick meaning: Boatload is a noun meaning Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.

Meaning

Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.

More Meanings

1. (slang) A large quantity.

Example Sentences

a boatload of ferry passengers

He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.

What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.

Just then two boats[-]load of natives appeared, and our owner having agreed with them to tow us into harbour, they tried to do so, assisted by our own boat, but could make no way. […] Those who live on the coast have plenty of fish; but when inland, as we are here, they only go to the sea occasionally, and then bring home cockles and other shell-fish by the boatload.

Word Forms

• boatloads

Synonyms for boatload

Depending on context, synonyms include boatful, buttload, shedload, abundance, battalion, arseload.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shipload, carload, cartload, bulk, wagonload, bargeload.

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