dreamboat
Americannoun
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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!
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Older Use. a luxuriously designed car.
noun
Etymology
Origin of dreamboat
Example Sentences
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Indeed, Gosling leans all the way into “I’m Just Ken,” finding the emotional truth in the windblown 1980s-style power ballad about how even a dreamboat can struggle with insecurity in a place like Barbie Land.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 13, 2023
"Bridgerton" established Page as the unattainable dreamboat everybody wants to be around, prime attributes for a paladin, a class requiring high charisma.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2023
Those steps became something of a pilgrimage site for Mr. Bieber’s fans, especially those vying to become “One Less Lonely Girl” during his teen-pop dreamboat era.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022
Much as he showed in “Gone Girl,” another gleefully amoral potboiler about a loveless marriage, he excels at playing the emasculated dreamboat, the golden boy gone to seed.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022
“Just so you know, in case you want to spend some quality time with dreamboat over there.”
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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