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PT boat

PT boat noun: a type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II.

pt boat: a type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II
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Noun

PT boat (plural PT boats)

  1. (US) A type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II.
    • The PT boat is not merely a small boat for attack in rivers and inland seas. It is a deadly offensive weapon for use under the most trying conditions [...]1943, Lawrence Conant, quoting Charles Edison, “The PT Boats: Weapons of Opportunity”, in William Harrison Fetridge, editor, The Navy Reader

Forms of PT boat

pluralPT boats

Origin of PT boat

Initialism of patrol torpedo boat.

Questions about PT boat

What does PT boat mean?
PT boat means a type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II.
What part of speech is PT boat?
PT boat is a noun.
What is the plural of PT boat?
The plural of PT boat is PT boats.

Words near PT boat in the dictionary

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