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sportfisherman

American  
[spawrt-fish-er-muhn, spohrt-] / ˈspɔrtˌfɪʃ ər mən, ˈspoʊrt- /

noun

  1. a motorboat fitted out for sportfishing.


Etymology

Origin of sportfisherman

First recorded in 1965–70; sport + fisherman


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During Wilma, a sportfisherman on the hard was taken down by her tender, which was dislodged from its cradle on the foredeck.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I told her the Ocean was a sportfisherman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just about every able-bodied sportfisherman in the Midwest was driving, flying or hitchhiking to Lake Michigan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Tommy Gueldner has been fishing the offshore waters out of Port Aransas for 29 years, and for the past 15 he has worked as a charter captain aboard the Yellowfin, a 40-foot sportfisherman.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gleaming sportfisherman was tied stem-first to a wooden dock, where a monster blue marlin hung glassyeyed from a tall pole.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

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