Meanings
nounwhite boat (plural white boats)
plural white boats
- nauticalA superyacht.
Nobody can say precisely how many of Putin's associates own superyachts—known to professionals as “white boats”—because the white-boat world is notoriously opaque.
2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Jul 2022
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white boat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/white%20boat
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“white boat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/white%20boat. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “white boat,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/white%20boat.
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