boatlift

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noun

The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.

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Meanings

nounboatlift (plural boatlifts)

plural boatlifts

  1. The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.
  2. alternativeAlternative form of boat lift (“mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another”).
verbboatlift (third-person singular simple present boatlifts, present participle boatlifting, simple past and past participle boatlifted)

present singular third person boatlifts · participle present boatlifting · participle past boatlifted · past boatlifted

  1. transitiveTo transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.

Origin

From boat + lift.

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APA

boatlift. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatlift

MLA

“boatlift.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatlift. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “boatlift,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/boatlift.

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