speedboat
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of speedboat
1910–15; speed ( def. ) + boat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Speedboat scenes have also been shot on the River Thames, while the production has visited Morocco, Austria, Italy and Mexico, where Bond was filmed amidst the country's Day of the Dead carnival.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2015
Speedboat regattas were held on the sea; people water-skied.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 27, 2015
Elizabeth Hardwick detected in Speedboat “A precocious alertness to incongruity: this one would have to say is the odd, dominating trait of the character of the narrator.”
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2013
By Posted Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 7:30 AM I was glad to see that Renata Adler’s cult classic Speedboat was being reissued in April, if only to have an excuse to read it again.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2013
Speedboat is a cascade of smooth and shiny pebbles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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