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life boat

life boat is the alternative form of lifeboat.

Meaning of lifeboat

Noun

lifeboat (plural lifeboats)

  1. A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
    • I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat1971, Alice Cooper, Glen Buxton, Michael Bruce, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith, “Halo of Flies”, in Killer, performed by Alice Cooper
  2. An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.

See all 3 meanings of lifeboat

Forms of life boat

plurallife boats

Questions about life boat

What is life boat the alternative form of?
Life boat is the alternative form of lifeboat.

Words near life boat in the dictionary

  1. life assured
  2. life belt
  3. life belts
  4. life bird
  5. life birds
  6. life boat
  7. life boats
  8. life buoy
  9. life buoys
  10. life car
  11. life cars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: life boat (page history and authors); lifeboat (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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