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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

Example Sentences

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The new yacht�s proportions are consistent with those of any modern sportfisherman and provide creature comforts undreamed of by sportsmen of the 1930s.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I told her the Ocean was a sportfisherman.

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

Photo: Scott TaylorOn a cold, blustery january day, Dr. Barbara Block was in the cockpit of a pitching sportfisherman off the coast of North Carolina, braving some of the worst conditions of the Atlantic.

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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