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
• German: Motorboot (de) n
• Hungarian: motorcsónak (hu)
• Japanese: モーターボート (mōtābōto)
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• Korean: 모터보트 (moteoboteu)
• Lao: ເຮືອຈັກ (hư̄a chak)
• Macedonian: моторен чамец m (motoren čamec)
• Maori: rōnohi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: motorbåt m

  Nynorsk: motorbåt m

• Portuguese: lancha (pt) f
• Russian: (with outboard engine) мото́рная ло́дка f (motórnaja lódka); (with inboard engine) ка́тер (ru) m (káter)
• Swedish: motorbåt (sv) c

See also

• powerboat
• speedboat

Verb

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

1. (slang) To place one's head between a person's breasts and make the sound of a motorboat with one's lips whilst moving the head from side to side.