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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Colt escapes by initially driving a speedboat while facing away from the controls, evades his pursuers by zigging and zagging through the river, and then purposefully drives his boat into a floating pontoon, faking his own death via the gigantic explosion.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
On the border of Argentina and Brazil, a speedboat safari cuts through the lower portion of Iguazú Falls.
—Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
Between the use of a speedboat as a weapon, the unceremonious and shocking murder of Billy Magnussen's big bad, and all that aggressive stabbing with a shard of wood, director Doug Liman made sure to keep audiences gasping and cringing until the very end.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Some of the pirates were already waiting there in speedboats.
—Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
On the border of Argentina and Brazil, a speedboat safari cuts through the lower portion of Iguazú Falls.
—Christopher Cameron, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2024
Between the use of a speedboat as a weapon, the unceremonious and shocking murder of Billy Magnussen's big bad, and all that aggressive stabbing with a shard of wood, director Doug Liman made sure to keep audiences gasping and cringing until the very end.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Some of the pirates were already waiting there in speedboats.
—Soham Mitra, Lou Robinson and Patrick Gallagher, CNN, 22 Feb. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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