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boatload

Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.

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#1·Apr 26, 2026

Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.

Origin: From . The figurative sense is extended from the literal sense. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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#2·Apr 26, 2026

(slang) A large quantity.

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  • “Well done! 👍 I hope you sell a boatload of books!”

  • “Yeah, sounds pretty much the same yet no matter how much I curate it I still get oodles of nonsense. I'm trying to spend much more time with my trusty Kindle Reader. I have a boatload of books I've collected over the years so I'm trying to switch my attention to that.”

  • “And they're doing a 4K theatrical release of the original 1977 print! No George Lucas CGI. No Jabba. Han shoots first 😎 I suspect a boatload of money changed George's previous staunch stance on the original print never seeing the light of day again?”

He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
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  • “Well done! 👍 I hope you sell a boatload of books!”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “Yeah, sounds pretty much the same yet no matter how much I curate it I still get oodles of nonsense. I'm trying to spend much more time with my trusty Kindle Reader. I have a boatload of books I've collected over the years so I'm trying to switch my attention to that.”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
  • “And they're doing a 4K theatrical release of the original 1977 print! No George Lucas CGI. No Jabba. Han shoots first 😎 I suspect a boatload of money changed George's previous staunch stance on the original print never seeing the light of day again?”

    — Bluesky· May 2026
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