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jet boat

or jetboat

noun

  1. a small, propellerless boat powered by an engine that ejects water for its thrust.


jet boat

noun

  1. a power boat that is powered and steered by a jet of water under pressure
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • jet boating noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of jet boat1

First recorded in 1960–65
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Example Sentences

Center Corey Linsley joked about Herbert purchasing “a jet boat.”

Perched on a cliff was a visitor center where we met up with Hells Canyon Adventures, a jet boat tour company offering half-day trips through Class III and IV rapids.

Today, Morfin’s enterprise offers traditional dinners featuring Native dances and songs, Appaloosa-riding experiences, white-water rafting and tribe member-led jet boat tours of the Snake.

Then there’s Ojai, and Ravinia, and Spoleto, and Caramoor, and Bard, and Cabrillo and many, many more festivals; if your budget stretches and your stomach is strong, you can even take a jet boat down the Colorado to hear “Quartet for the End of Time” in a riverside grotto outside Moab.

In 1955, Don Smith was the first to make the return trip on the river, using a flat-bottomed aluminum jet boat he designed and built.

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