Definitions for torpedo-boat

torpedo-boat torpedo boat

Torpedo-Boat is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 531 anagrams from letters in torpedo-boat (-abdeoooprtt).

Definitions for torpedo-boat

noun

  1. a small, fast, highly maneuverable boat used for torpedoing enemy shipping.

Origin of torpedo-boat

An Americanism dating back to 1800-10

Examples for torpedo-boat

It looks as though it might have been sent up by the torpedo boat.

Macintyre and I will be able to doctor that torpedo boat so that she will not trouble us.

I actually began to chase her--a submarine chasing a torpedo boat!

They had sent out a torpedo boat to sink the Ironsides, but it was a failure.

From this place our aviators returned to Sebastopol on a torpedo boat.

The torpedo boat destroyers, of which there were 18, must not be forgotten.

In stormy weather life on board a torpedo boat is not amusing.

It had the tonnage of a small trans-Atlantic liner and the speed of a torpedo boat.

I think we could make it very interesting for a torpedo boat.

She might have been a torpedo boat by the way in which she behaved.

Word Value for torpedo-boat
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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