top definitions
related content
examples
british

U-boat

[ yoo-boht ]

/ ˈyuˌboʊt /

noun

a German submarine.

Origin of U-boat

1910–15; < German U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot literally, undersea boat

Example sentences from the Web for u-boat

Prominent among those struggles was the battle of the Atlantic, waged against the U-boat menace.

D-Day Was The Largest And One Of The Bloodiest Invasions In History |James A. Warren |June 6, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I suspect that the production stopped short of plagiarism, but it probably sailed very close to the U-boat.

The Fascist Historian and Me |Guy Walters |January 12, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
He died in 1941, just 35, after a German U-Boat torpedoed the ship on which he was sailing as a BBC correspondent to Cairo.

The Grand Tour in Style: Robert Byron’s ‘Europe in the Looking-Glass’ |Malcolm Forbes |November 16, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
If he spotted a U-boat, not only would he call for backup, he wanted to attack the sub himself.

Just the Fact: Hemingway's Hand Grenades |Terry Mort |September 2, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

We seem just to have struck the peak of the midsummer U-boat campaign.

Sea-Hounds |Lewis R. Freeman
Captain Hassan was taken aboard the U-boat, and no further knowledge of his fate has been received.

Lest We Forget |John Gilbert Thompson
Our moderate estimators here put it down as three, with one transport ramming and sinking one U-boat.

The U-boat hunters |James B. Connolly
Other U-boat commanders would appear off the hunting grounds and attack ships in more or less easy-going fashion.

The Victory At Sea |William Sowden Sims
The uniform and underclothes were almost as wet as when Alec had arrived on board the U-boat.

The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge |Percy F. Westerman

British Dictionary definitions for u-boat

U-boat

noun

a German submarine, esp in World Wars I and II

Word Origin for U-boat

from German U-Boot, abbreviation for Unterseeboot, literally: undersea boat