bugeyes

noun

plural of bugeye
as in schooners

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  1. yachts
  2. cutters
  3. junk
  4. sharpies
  5. galleons
  6. frigates
  7. sailboats
  8. windjammers
Noun
  • On the whole, my clients tend to favor a boutique experience with upscale yachts, luxury lodges, and private services.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Kistler says the firm sold 14 yachts last year, with a $150 million turnover.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of yachts
Noun
  • The 1,680-ton tunnel-boring machine unveiled Monday is nearly the length of two football fields and armed with cutters harder than diamonds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Cable-cutters can also stream the fest live online through a variety of live TV streamers such as DirecTV (which offers a 5-day free trial) and Sling TV.
    — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of cutters
Noun
  • This is great news for keeping space clear of junk and extending satellites’ lifetimes—unless China turns that ability to get close to an uncooperative satellite into a military strategy.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
  • The move to junk grade territory from BB+ to BB highlighted the project’s vulnerability to default.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of junk
Noun
  • There were no balloons or photo ops with fake paper and sharpies and ceremonial hoopla.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 6 June 2026
Definition of sharpies
Noun
  • Merchant galleons coursing into the port of Caldera would be groaning with cacao, tobacco, livestock and hardwoods, transported down by mule from the transit hub of Esparza in the mountain basin above.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of galleons
Noun
  • In 2026, Tokyo lifted its decades-long ban on exporting lethal arms and agreed to build three frigates for Australia and to jointly produce eight more.
    — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Those platforms include destroyers, aircraft carriers, amphibious ships, and frigates.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of frigates
Noun
  • Bridges along the Chicago River will lift almost a dozen times this fall to allow sailboats and other recreational vessels to return to their winter storage yards, the Chicago Department of Transportation said Monday.
    — Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Readers are whisked away to Jamaica and the Hebrides, the post-apocalyptic future and the medieval past, university lecture halls and modest sailboats.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of sailboats
Noun
  • Now known as Sail4th 250, the parade of ships is a successor to Operation Sail, the international flotilla of schooners and barques and windjammers brought into New York Harbor half a dozen times starting in 1964.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 30 June 2026
  • Along the rocky coast, maritime traditions endure through historic lighthouses, windjammers, and working waterfronts.
    — Mark Ellwood, AFAR Media, 7 Nov. 2025
Definition of windjammers
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