Meanings
- not comparablerareOn board a yacht.
According to one version, he'd been so drunk at a yachtboard party one night that he'd fallen overboard and drowned in Sydney Harbour within sight of the Cremorne ferry dock.
1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 2741 more example
Cheeta swings from vine to vine through le tout Hollywood, from saucy poolside romps with Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes de Acosta, Clark Gable and Clara Bow, to suave yachtboard revels — “a couple of cocktails, some caviar and a good cigar” — with Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and Errol Flynn.
2009 April 5, Liesl Schillinger, “Monkey See? Monkey, Do Tell”, in New York Times
Origin
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yachtboard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yachtboard
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