Canoe

Quick meaning: Canoe is a noun meaning (gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.

Meaning

(gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.

More Meanings

1. To ride or paddle a canoe.
2. (US, military slang) To split someone's head with a round.
3. (nautical) A small long and narrow boat, propelled by one or more people (depending on the size of canoe), using single-bladed paddles. The paddlers face in the direction of travel, in either a seated position, or kneeling on the bottom of the boat. Canoes are open on top, and pointed at both ends.
4. (slang) An oversize, usually older, luxury car.

Example Sentences

The canoe is of pure black oak, and is in excellent preservation.

He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; […]

Car drivers were helicoptered to safety from nearby roads. There were photographs of people canoeing down streets.

The email said, “Do you know how happy I’ll be when your cunt ass face is canoed by an assault rifle? Tick tock bitch. Watch your back.” Canoeing is a term for when people mutilate someone’s head.

Word Forms

• canoes
• canoeing
• canoed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paddleboat, rowboat, watercraft, dugout, kayak, skiff.

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