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cigarette boat

cigarette boat noun: a small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation.

cigarette boat: a small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation
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Noun

cigarette boat (plural cigarette boats)

  1. (Canada, US) A small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation.
    • MICHAELA: You're not a mobster, Ethan! You're not gonna run drugs back and forth to South America in your cigarette boat!2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 55
  2. A powerboat of the type similar to a vessel that is used to smuggle cigarettes.
    • Near-synonym: speedboat

Synonyms of cigarette boat

Forms of cigarette boat

pluralcigarette boats
alternative formcigarette-boat

Questions about cigarette boat

What does cigarette boat mean?
Cigarette boat means a small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation.
What part of speech is cigarette boat?
Cigarette boat is a noun.
What is the plural of cigarette boat?
The plural of cigarette boat is cigarette boats.

Words near cigarette boat in the dictionary

  1. cigaret
  2. cigarets
  3. cigarette
  4. cigarette beetle
  5. cigarette beetles
  6. cigarette boat
  7. cigarette boats
  8. cigarette burn
  9. cigarette burns
  10. cigarette camp
  11. cigarette camps

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