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u-boat

nounC1leans written

Other forms: u-boats

A u-boat is a German submarine of the two world wars. Hunted by a u-boat.

The name is short for Unterseeboot, meaning undersea boat. A u-boat came closer to cutting Britain off than anything else in either war.

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Definitions of u-boat

  1. 1nounu-boatA German submarine of the two world wars.C1

    “The convoy lost four ships to one u-boat in a night.”

u-boat is a submarine.

Where it comes from

  1. German

    U-Boot

  2. English

    U-boat

  3. English, today

    u-boat

U-boat German U-Boot; retail sense separately coined and reinforced by the well-known historical U-boat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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