boatload

[ boht-lohd ]

/ ˈboʊtˌloʊd /

the cargo that a vessel carries or is capable of carrying.

Origin of boatload

First recorded in 1670–80; boat + load

Here's hoping Aronofsky's passion project makes a boatload of money—despite its flaws.

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As the festival wraps, Ragnar Kjartansson's boatload of musicians play its closing notes.

Venice Biennale Sails into the Sunset |Blake Gopnik |November 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Expect a boatload of commemorative coins, plates, T-shirts, and baby tchotchkes of all sorts to be sold.

The Royal Baby Is Already Making Britain Better |Daniel Gross |July 22, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
“Google, these big outfits, they get subpoenas by the boatload every day,” Deputy Chief Smith said.

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Workers with professional or graduate degrees sometimes make a boatload of it.

We Overvalue College |Professor X |September 11, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Just then up the Wabash came a Spaniard with a boatload of valuable goods.

The Conquest |Eva Emery Dye
Many of the trees with their sprawling roots were overgrown with oysters and the boys gathered half a boatload of the bivalves.

The Radio Detectives Under the Sea |A. Hyatt Verrill
And the boatload ahead ceased from their jovial ditty, gripped by the conventional melancholy of evening.

Twos and Threes |G. B. Stern
That's a purely Osnomian war-gadget—kind of a battleship detector—shows that there's a boatload of bad news around here somewhere.

Skylark Three |Edward Elmer Smith
Having gotten a boatload, it is laid out to decompose in a kraal on the beach, where it is washed by the sea.

Elsie and Her Namesakes |Martha Finley

boatload

/ (ˈbəʊtˌləʊd) /

the amount of cargo or number of people held by a boat or ship