yachtboard

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English

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Etymology

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From yacht +‎ board.

Adjective

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yachtboard (not comparable)

  1. (rare) On board a yacht.
    • 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 274:
      According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock.
    • 2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in New York Times[1]:
      Cheeta swings from vine to vine through le tout Hollywood, from saucy poolside romps with Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Clark Gable and Clara Bow, to suave yachtboard revels — “a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar” — with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn.