garvey

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Recent Examples of garvey The Jawn — a slang word particular to Philadelphia that functions as a pronoun for pretty much anything — is a garvey, a type of work boat. Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 2 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for garvey
Noun
  • Everything was hunky dory when federal law enforcement was raiding Mar-a-Lago and President Joe Biden was getting a free pass?
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025
  • Luckily, once the job is done, everything seems pretty hunky dory, as if there had never been any reckonings at all.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Small crafts include owners of small to medium sized motor and sail boats, affecting fisherman, para-sailors, windsurfers and canoe paddlers.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Enjoy the Outdoors For more wildlife encounters, check out Hunters Springs Park, a public park complete with a small beach, swimming area, canoe and kayak launch, and a boardwalk along the waterway that's ideal for bird spotting.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Tacketts rejected the Alaska State Trooper’s conclusion that their son had fallen out of the skiff and drowned.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The dive shop loads us up on one of the skiffs for near-shore diving, hauling us out to a historical wreck site on their larger double-decker catamaran.
    Peter Kelly, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And Ami just loses her footing and falls off the outrigger.
    EW.com, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.
    Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That was enough to buy him a space on a derelict dinghy, with some 70 others, hoping soon to see England’s white cliffs.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
    Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • In a startling revelation, the crew members aboard this intergalactic garbage scow turn out to be the descendants of American astronauts launched 200 years earlier during humanity's pre-warp, post-World War III days.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The three women died after a pontoon boat with seven occupants flipped over in the western Maine lake.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Or, have dinner on a pontoon boat with each course delivered by silent canoe.
    Karin Jones, Travel + Leisure, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Stanberry and her husband, and sometimes friends who like to come along, will brave the heat and bugs and hike out into the swamp, drive out to trails in a vehicle, take electric bikes or motor around in a johnboat looking for the invasive species.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • On an aluminum johnboat, a good seat can make a world of difference.
    Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023

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“Garvey.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/garvey. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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