boatload

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbəʊtˌləʊd/    美 /ˈboʊtˌloʊd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
    — a boatload of ferry passengers
  2. A large quantity. slang
    — 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.

词形变化

boatloads plural

词源

From boat + load. The figurative sense is extended from the literal sense.
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