as in motorboat
a boat equipped with a motor
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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Recent Examples of speedboat
Most folks trace its origin to Lake City, Minnesota, where a teenager named Ralph Samuelson put together some makeshift and ridiculously heavy wooden skis and decided to try hanging on for amusement and dear life behind a twenty-four-foot speedboat in 1922.
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Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
In Ukraine, compact, seatless drones that resemble speedboats have been used to deliver large explosive payloads, significantly impacting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
The trailer is careful to showcase the film’s scale – fighter planes soar, speedboats roar, trains careen, and cities flash by in a blur – while keeping plot details tantalizingly out of reach.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
The fire occurred in the 1700 block of Paradise Point Road in Oakland while the boat’s owner and acquaintances were working on a 23-foot, 1988 Supra Saltare speedboat just before noon.
—Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2025
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Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
In Ukraine, compact, seatless drones that resemble speedboats have been used to deliver large explosive payloads, significantly impacting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
The trailer is careful to showcase the film’s scale – fighter planes soar, speedboats roar, trains careen, and cities flash by in a blur – while keeping plot details tantalizingly out of reach.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
The fire occurred in the 1700 block of Paradise Point Road in Oakland while the boat’s owner and acquaintances were working on a 23-foot, 1988 Supra Saltare speedboat just before noon.
—Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 16 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for speedboat
Noun
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No motorboat sounds here, no industrial vacuum cleaner sounds.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Kight was also charged with operating his motorboat on the lake negligently, endangering the life of Jennifer Ann Stahle by not looking forward in the direction of travel and being under the influence, according to court documents.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This is not a wallowing cruiser that isolates the driver in a leather cocoon, floating along, not entirely sure where the front end is.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The company has updated its 450cc sports and cruiser bikes alongside the Papio mini motos with some nifty new features.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
12 Sep. 2025
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This weekend, the historic powerboat racing series returns to east Mission Bay for the 57th time.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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The couple had three children together before Stefano tragically died in a powerboat racing accident in 1990.—
Elizabeth Rosner,
People.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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