Usually means: Evacuation or transport by watercraft.
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  1. boatlift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. boatlift: Collins English Dictionary
  3. boatlift: Wordnik
  4. boatlift: Wiktionary
  5. boatlift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. boatlift: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. boatlift: Dictionary.com
  8. The Boatlift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (boatlift)

noun:  The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.
verb:  (transitive) To transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.
noun:  Alternative form of boat lift (“mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another”). [(mechanical engineering) A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another, while keeping them afloat.]

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