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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
  • His collection included woodland pots from North America, Aztec stone figurines and obsidian blades, a canoe from South America, Indigenous stone tools and weapons, Taino artifacts, an ancient Roman mosaic fragment, and Chinese pottery and armor.
    Domenica Bongiovanni, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Book a Hawaiian outrigger canoe trip at sunrise to watch dolphins.
    Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The bulk of the trip was focused on searching for wildlife during skiff rides along the shores and on a walk in the jungle.
    Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 21 Oct. 2025
  • On Monday morning, Duane and Bill took the skiff to the far side of the lake.
    Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Book a Hawaiian outrigger canoe trip at sunrise to watch dolphins.
    Carla Vianna, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Several California State Parks Ocean Lifeguards earned the Heroic Act Award for treating an Fijian outrigger paddler having a cardiac arrest during a trek from Catalina to Newport Beach.
    Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Golden mussels clog the thruster and decorate the underside of his dinghies.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Dozens have died in recent years trying to cross one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes in overcrowded dinghies.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 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
  • That misses the point of a pontoon boat, not to mention living on a nice piece of lakeshore.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Kelly’s father owned a pontoon boat that, in high school, had been off limits.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 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 29 Nov. 2025.

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