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swiftboats

swiftboats is the plural of swiftboat.

swiftboats is the third-person singular simple present indicative of swiftboat.

Meaning of swiftboat

Noun

swiftboat (plural swiftboats)

  1. (US) A type of gunboat used by the United States military on inland waterways.
    • The men narrowly missed death when the swiftboat in front of theirs took a direct hit from a Communist rocket-propelled grenade.1973, Glenn MacDonald, Report or distort?, page 116
  2. (attributive, figuratively, usually) A smear campaign based on specious claims.
    • Lately, however, Republican swiftboat attacks have begun to fall short.2007, Jeffrey Feldman, Framing the Debate, →ISBN

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Questions about swiftboats

What is swiftboats the plural of?
Swiftboats is the plural of swiftboat.

Words near swiftboats in the dictionary

  1. swift-thinking
  2. Swift-Tuttle
  3. swiftboat
  4. swiftboated
  5. swiftboating
  6. swiftboats
  7. Swiftdom
  8. swiften
  9. swiftened
  10. swiftening
  11. swiftens

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