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slooplike

slooplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a sloop.

Adjective

slooplike (comparative more slooplike, superlative most slooplike)

  1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of a sloop.
    • They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine.1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic
    • A little slooplike vessel, long, low, lateen-rigged, had put out from a masked cove. No threat. "Messenger boat," said Fat Poppo […]1978, Magazine of fantasy and science fiction

Forms of slooplike

comparativemore slooplike
superlativemost slooplike

Origin of slooplike

From sloop + -like.

Questions about slooplike

What does slooplike mean?
Slooplike means resembling or characteristic of a sloop.
What part of speech is slooplike?
Slooplike is an adjective.

Words near slooplike in the dictionary

  1. slooming
  2. slooms
  3. sloomy
  4. sloop
  5. sloop-of-war
  6. slooplike
  7. sloopman
  8. sloopmen
  9. sloops
  10. sloops-of-war
  11. sloos

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