boats

noun

A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.

(poker slang) A full house.

A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.

(informal) A large and heavy car; the term connotes wasteful size.

(organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformations of cyclohexane rings (the other being chair), shaped roughly like a boat.

(Australian politics, informal) The refugee boats arriving in Australian waters, and by extension, refugees generally.

(cellular automata) In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.

Alternative form of BOAT.

(Internet slang) Acronym of best of all time.

(astronomy, informal) Acronym of brightest of all time (“the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded in the universe”).

verb

(intransitive) To travel by boat.

(transitive) To transport in a boat.

(transitive) To place in a boat.

(transitive, slang, obsolete) To transport (deport to a penal colony).

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