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PT boats

PT boats is the plural of PT boat.

Meaning of PT boat

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

Questions about PT boats

What is PT boats the plural of?
PT boats is the plural of PT boat.

Words near PT boats in the dictionary

  1. psywar
  2. psywars
  3. Pszczyna
  4. pt
  5. PT boat
  6. PT boats
  7. pt.
  8. pta
  9. pta.
  10. Ptacek
  11. Ptaceks

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