steamboats
/stˈimbˌoʊts/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.46 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Joe and The Tongue especially are absolutely steamboats by the time we reach the Niccy, and the 'bouncers' – furtive damp chemistry teachers on an ego trip – turn us all sneeringly away in their clean-spitting accents:"
- "Somebody absolutely steamboats he says on sweet warm wine swigged plaincover from a paper bag squats in a puddle with nothing to sell […]"
- "The truth is that nobody remembered; they had all been absolutely steamboats."
- "After getting steamboats in the pub we would all head to the local fish-and-chip shop, where I would order a fish supper and a steak pie wrapped together. I would then place it on a wall and bash it with my fist so that pie, fish and chips all ..."
- "By the weekend we were off it and out on the lash, living it up in the VIP section of Annabelle's nightclub and getting absolutely steamboats. There's only one thing better than a glass of Champagne – a bottle!"
Etymology
Perhaps from Steamboat Willie, rhyming slang for silly, or perhaps from a stereotype of steamboat passengers getting drunk.