cigarette boatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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cigarette boat (plural cigarette boats)

1. (Canada, US) A small, fast boat with a planing hull used to smuggle cigarettes to avoid taxation.

   Hypernyms: go-fast boat < powerboat < boat < vessel

   Coordinate terms: rum-runner; blockade runner

   • 2014, Molly Smith Metzler, Elemeno Pea, →ISBN, page 55:

     MICHAELA: You're not a mobster, Ethan! You're not gonna run drugs back and forth to South America in your cigarette boat!

2. A powerboat of the type similar to a vessel that is used to smuggle cigarettes.

   Synonyms: go-fast boat, rum-runner

   Hypernyms: powerboat < boat < vessel

   Near-synonym: speedboat

Further reading

• Go-fast boat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia