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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I was so desperate to make things work with the dreamboat climber man.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
Farrell is a glittering bauble of a man, an architecture-loving manic-pixie dreamboat, a walking interrobang, but he’ll never be more captivating than his creator and, by extension, his creator’s stand-in.
From New York Times • May 31, 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
Tall, mustachioed and handsome — these are allegedly the attributes of a New York City dreamboat turned the devil himself.
From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022
Anatole, the schoolteacher, is twenty-four years of age, with all his fingers still on, both eyes and both feet, and that is the local idea of a top-throb dreamboat.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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