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yachtboard

yachtboard adjective: on board a yacht.

Adjective

yachtboard (not comparable)

  1. (rare) On board a yacht.
    • According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock.1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 274
    • Cheeta swings from vine to vine through le tout Hollywood, from saucy poolside romps with Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Clark Gable and Clara Bow, to suave yachtboard revels — “a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar” — with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn.2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in New York Times

Origin of yachtboard

From yacht + board.

Questions about yachtboard

What does yachtboard mean?
Yachtboard means on board a yacht.
What part of speech is yachtboard?
Yachtboard is an adjective.

Words near yachtboard in the dictionary

  1. yacht club
  2. yacht clubs
  3. yacht people
  4. yacht person
  5. yacht rock
  6. yachtboard
  7. yachtdom
  8. yachted
  9. yachtee
  10. yachtees
  11. yachter

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