dreamboat

[dreem-boht]

noun

Slang.

1. a highly attractive or desirable person.

   Look at these vintage pics I found of Grandpa in uniform—he was a real dreamboat back in the day!

2. Older Use.,  a luxuriously designed car.

dreamboat

/ ˈdriːmˌbəʊt /

noun

1. old-fashioned,  an exceptionally attractive person or thing, esp a person of the opposite sex

Word History and Origins

Origin of dreamboat¹

First recorded in 1940–45; dream + boat

Example Sentences

Lerman is the former teen dreamboat of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and the “Percy Jackson” series, and he’s interesting casting.

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Katelyn Doyle is the author of the contemporary rom-coms "Just Some Stupid Love Story" and "Total Dreamboat," and she also writes as the USA Today bestselling historical romance novelist Scarlett Peckham.

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Backed by the 77-year-old Queen guitarist as well as a large gospel choir in angelic robes, the mustachioed pop-rock dreamboat nailed Freddie Mercury’s lung-busting theatrics — and, more important, seemed to be having a blast as he moved through each of the song’s many rock-operatic twists and turns.

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Half a century after the release of 1975’s “Dreamboat Annie,” Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are set to hit the road Friday night in Las Vegas.

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If the downfall of onetime liberal dreamboat Emmanuel Macron in France seems like a startling headline — he remains in office, but has effectively lost control of government — and the crumbling of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition nothing more than a footnote, there’s plenty more chaos to contemplate.

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