man overboard
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.43 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
A cry used to announce that one of the crew or passengers has fallen over the side of the vessel.
Example Sentences
- "Hazel Strong was looking from her darkened port across the dark sea. Suddenly a body shot past her eyes from the deck above. It dropped so quickly into the dark waters below that she could not be sure of what it was—it might have been a man, she could not say. She listened for some outcry from above—for the always-fearsome call, “Man overboard!” but it did not come. All was silence on the ship above—all was silence in the sea below."
Inflected Forms
man overboard ! (canonical)