English
Etymology
Notionally, because the commodity in question might have constituted the entire load of a cargo ship or boat.
Noun
en-noun
- slang An excessively large quantity. Frequently 84.
#: He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
Translations
Finnish: repullinen (lit. backpack full of sthg)
Quotations
What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.<br>�Rob Pegoraro, "Waiting for the Winner of a High-Definition High Noon", The Washington Post, 2006-12-10 1
Related terms
buttload
fuckload
shitload
zh:boatload
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