jet boat

American  

Or jetboat

noun

1. a small, propellerless boat powered by an engine that ejects water for its thrust.

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jet boat British  

noun

1. a power boat that is powered and steered by a jet of water under pressure

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Other Word Forms

• jet boating noun

Etymology

Origin of jet boat

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

Plein’s show also included a fighter jet, boat and cars, making for a “military-meets-decadence air,” the New York Post reported.

From Fox News • Feb. 25, 2020

On the red jet boat, Tuntiak Katan, the territory and natural-resources director for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, was along for the ride.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018

The information at this compact museum comes at you faster than the “Miami Vice”-style jet boat that was seized in the Miami area and used by Buffalo’s station to police the Great Lakes.

From Washington Post • May 16, 2018

Seeing them from a jet boat provides fresh air, the occasional fast turn and splash, and an architecture lesson on, among others, the Burnside, Hawthorne and Steel bridges.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2017

From the right, Tom could see the red flash of the rockets of Terry Scott's jet boat, which Astro had volunteered to pilot, coming into view.

From Danger in Deep Space by Glanzman, Louis