steamboat
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editsteamboat (countable and uncountable, plural steamboats)
- A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
- 1870, Mark Twain, chapter 3, in Life on the Mississippi[1]:
- By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
- (uncountable, Singapore, Malaysia) Hot pot (Chinese dish).
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editvessel powered by steam
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editsteamboat (third-person singular simple present steamboats, present participle steamboating, simple past and past participle steamboated)
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