motor torpedo boat

noun

: pt boat

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His heroic efforts in the South Pacific on the navy motor torpedo boat PT-109 during World War II earned him a Purple Heart but left him even more physically debilitated. — Laurence Leamer, Air Mail, 24 Oct. 2026 Battleships, cruisers, 122 destroyers, 360 motor torpedo boats and some 6,000 other ships approached unseen. — Time, 6 June 2019

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First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of motor torpedo boat was in 1940

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