speedboats

plural of speedboat
as in motorboats
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 speedboats 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

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“Speedboats.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboats. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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