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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hell ship

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.71 in modern English

Syllables
hel-l -ship
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A ship (sailing vessel) with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew, especially one of those used by the Japanese to transport Allied prisoners of war and Asian slave labourers out of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, and Singapore in World War II.

Inflected Forms

hell ships (plural)

Questions

What does hell ship mean?
A ship (sailing vessel) with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew, especially one of those used by the Japanese to transport Allied prisoners of war and Asian slave labourers out of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, and Singapore in World War II.

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