boatload

Plural: boatloads

Noun

• The amount of cargo or people that a boat can carry.
• the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car
  • "he imported wine by the boatload"
• Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
• A large quantity.

Examples

• a boatload of ferry passengers
• He received a BOATLOAD of points after playing a seven-letter word on a triple word score.
• 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.

Synonyms

carload, shipload, abundance, arseload, assload, bellyload, boatload, brimful, bucketful, bucketload, bumload, busload, butt-ton, buttload, cartload, crapload, deal, fuckload, fuckton, fuckwad, great deal, hantle, heap, hecatomb, helluvalot, horseload, lashings, load, lot, mampus, many, mass, metric fuckton, metric shitload, mickle, mountain, muckle, multiplicity, multitude, pile, ream, shedload, shitful, shitload, shitton, slew, sum, superflux, ton, trainload, truckload, tun, vaultful, wagonload

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