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TORPEDO BOAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does torpedo boat mean?
• TORPEDO BOAT (noun)
The noun TORPEDO BOAT has 1 sense:
1. small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters
Familiarity information: TORPEDO BOAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("torpedo boat" is a kind of...):
combat ship; war vessel; warship (a government ship that is available for waging war)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "torpedo boat"):
mosquito boat; mosquito craft; motor torpedo boat; PT boat (a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat)
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