tugboat
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 13
- Letters
- 7
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Definition of tugboat
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
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noun
- A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
- (Internet, euphemistic, rare)A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat
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Etymology
From tug + boat. Sense 2 from monthly tugboat, a reference to the saying "our ship has come in," here referring to a small, "reliable" "tugboat" instead of a large windfall.
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