pleasure boat

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pleasure boat (plural pleasure boats)

  1. A boat used for recreational activities, such as sport fishing or touring. [from 17th c.]
    • 1958 July 14, “When Soldiers Meet”, in Time:
      Steaming up the Adriatic aboard ex-King Farouk's former pleasure boat (now renamed Freedom), Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser arrived last week at the beautiful Yugoslav seaport of Dubrovnik.

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