motorboat

See also: motor boat

English

Alternative forms

• motor boat

Etymology

motor +‎ boat

Pronunciation

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Noun

motorboat (plural motorboats)

1. (nautical) Any vessel driven by an engine (either inboard or outboard), but especially a small one.

Translations

boat driven by an engine

• Armenian: մոտորանավակ (hy) (motoranavak)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摩托船 (zh) (mótuōchuán), 汽艇 (zh) (qìtǐng), 汽船 (zh) (qìchuán)

• Danish: motorbåd c
• Dutch: motorboot (nl) m or f
• Faroese: motorbátur m
• Finnish: moottorivene (fi)
• French: canot automobile m, bateau à moteur m
• German: Motorboot (de) n
• Hungarian: motorcsónak (hu)
• Japanese: モーターボート (mōtābōto)

• Korean: 모터보트 (moteoboteu)
• Lao: ເຮືອຈັກ (hư̄a chak)
• Macedonian: моторен чамец m (motoren čamec)
• Maori: rōnohi, waka pūkaha
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motorbåt m

  Nynorsk: motorbåt m

• Portuguese: lancha (pt) f
• Romanian: barcă cu motor f
• Russian: (with outboard engine) мото́рная ло́дка f (motórnaja lódka); (with inboard engine) ка́тер (ru) m (káter)
• Swedish: motorbåt (sv) c
• Turkish: motorbot (tr)

See also

• powerboat
• speedboat

Verb

motorboat (third-person singular simple present motorboats, present participle motorboating, simple past and past participle motorboated)

1. (slang) To press one's face between another person's breasts.
   • 2013, "19 Most Lustable Celebs", VIBE, April/May 2013, page 84:

     You're blind to the blue Pacific water and glaring sun as your entire face is buried in Sofia's bosom—you're motorboating on a motorboat!

   • 2013, "Breast cancer awareness gone too far", The Daily Athenaeum (West Virginia University), 25 October 2013, page 4:

     Other promotional events, such as “No Bra” day or the “motorboating girls for breast cancer awareness” campaign, also take things a little too far.

   • 2015, Jill Sorenson, Shooting Dirty, unnumbered page:

     Tiffany put her hands on Janelle's hips and motorboated her breasts.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:motorboat.