U-boat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of U-boat
1910–15; < German U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot literally, undersea boat
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The listener leaves with a lively mental picture of the author in his tie-dyed hippie glory, a “disheveled U-boat captain from another galaxy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The first dog sled patrols began in eastern Greenland during World War II, when they discovered and helped destroy German weather stations, denying the Germans crucial information for their U-boat campaign in the Atlantic.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
But as happened elsewhere in the country, much of L.A.’s public German community went to ground after May 1915, when a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
The ship had encountered a German U-boat, they claimed, and the platypus had been shaken to death amid a barrage of blasts.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
Within two hours of the U-boat landing, the Coast Guard alerted the FBI.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
