boatload
boatload
Definition
boat·load (-lōd′)
noun
- all the freight or passengers that a boat can carry or contain
- the load carried by a boat
boatload
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- tourist: Of course, there's a downside: boatloads of tourists coming for a nose with their digital camcorders and whining children.
- people: Met up with a boatload of French people who came alongside offering us wine.
- diver: Given the choices, I'd vote for a boatload of boring, sleepy divers in the middle of nowhere in a blink.
- refugee: Auntie Victoria said she'd heard about a boatload of refugees landing during the night.
- stuff: Anyways, we are almost at $ 1000 and got a boatload of stuff to give away, like 20+ CPUs from AMD.
Converse of object
- have: Studio version 9 has boatloads of exciting new features including: New!
- get: Anyways, we are almost at $ 1000 and got a boatload of stuff to give away, like 20+ CPUs from AMD.
- see: So it was good to see a boatload of TAC readers chug out that way in early May for some first-hand experience.
Adjective modifier
- other: I.e. if one does not have Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 or the other boatload of MS stuff that I do not have installed.
- full: Above the lower deck is the main sitting room, which looked to be a bit small for a full boatload.
- first: By the end of 1769 the first boatloads of coal were passing through Hawkesbury between Bedworth and Coventry's Bishop Street Canal Basin.
