speedboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of speedboat
1910–15; speed ( def. ) + boat ( def. )
Example Sentences
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A video on the website shows two Sinoguards employees arriving by speedboat at a tanker in the Gulf of Oman marked with the name and logo of Cosco Shipping, a state-run Chinese shipping giant.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
Ten of them this past week boarded a speedboat for what one of them told relatives was a fishing trip.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
There is also a lack of independent, third-party evidence that may support the scenario where the packed migrants boat had deliberately hit the specialist military speedboat.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Lane Kiffin, by contrast, bailed on his players and now resembles a renegade pirate at the helm of a flashy speedboat — fast, loud, brash and obsessively searching for buried treasure.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
We had to be careful in that boat, though, because sometimes bigger boats with engines carrying tourists would zoom by and almost hit us like a speedboat hitting a manatee.
From "Hurricane Child" by Kheryn Callender
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