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boatrace

boatrace is the alternative form of boat race.

Meaning of boat race

Noun

boat race (plural boat races)

  1. A race between rowing crews.
    • The Oxford and Cambridge boat race is held on the Thames every year.
  2. (Cockney, slang) The face.
  3. (slang) A fixed horse race, with a specific horse arranged to win in advance.
    • "Now," Herbie says, dropping his voice away down low, in case old Cap Duhaine may be around somewhere listening, "it is the third race, and the horse is a horse by the name of Never Despair. It is a boat race," Herbie says. "They are going to shoo in Never Despair. Everything else in the race is a...1944, Damon Runyon, “A Story Goes With It”, in Stories à la Carte
  4. (US, slang) A contest in which one competitor boat-races the other(s)

Forms of boatrace

pluralboatraces

Questions about boatrace

What is boatrace the alternative form of?
Boatrace is the alternative form of boat race.

Words near boatrace in the dictionary

  1. boatowner
  2. boatowners
  3. boatpeople
  4. boatperson
  5. boatpersons
  6. boatrace
  7. Boatright
  8. Boatrights
  9. boatrope
  10. boatropes
  11. boats

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Adapted from Wiktionary: boatrace (page history and authors); boat race (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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