Usually means: Armed vessel used for intimidation.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunboat: Merriam-Webster
  2. gunboat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gunboat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gunboat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gunboat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gunboat, gunboat: Wordnik
  7. gunboat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gunboat: Wiktionary
  9. gunboat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gunboat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gunboat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gunboat, gunboat: Dictionary.com
  13. Gunboat (video game), Gunboat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Gunboat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. gunboat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. gunboat: Rhymezone
  17. Gunboat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. gunboat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. gunboat: FreeDictionary.org
  20. gunboat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. gunboat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. gunboat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunboat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gunboat: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. gunboat, gunboat: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. gunboat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gunboating as well.)

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noun:  (nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels.

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