as in motorboat
a boat equipped with a motor
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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Recent Examples of speedboat
Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
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Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
First, Washington should expand its target list to include drug-trafficking speedboats in ports in addition to those on the high seas, because the threat must be brought home to the Venezuelan military.
—Elliott Abrams, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2025
According to prosecutors, Gogic and his co-conspirators worked with the ships' crew members to smuggle cocaine in shipping containers, hoisting loads of the drug from speedboats that approached the cargo vessels along their route, including near ports in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
—CBS News, 17 Nov. 2025
Select runabouts and speedboats, between 24 and 42 feet, have emerged as boating’s latest crown jewels.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speedboat
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According to the bill, people can’t operate a motorboat and wakeboard or wake surf on public freshwater lakes between sunset and sunrise.—
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Country musician Zac Brown pulls up to the beach on a motorboat in one scene, while contestant Christian Hubicki laments at another point that his fate in the game may be decided by Jimmy Fallon, a nod to the late-night host having possibly devised an advantage.—
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Each bungalow is outfitted with two cruiser bikes that are perfect for getting around on property.—
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Gray transported Stella’s cruiser and the parts to Town Plot Auto Body, located at 332 Fairfield Ave.—
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Stefano died tragically in a powerboat racing accident in 1990.—
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Throughout his life, Reagan also focused his time on several charities, raising money in powerboat racing and serving as chair of the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation board for three years.—
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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