motor torpedo boat

1. 1.

   a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat

   SynonymsPT boatmosquito boatmosquito craft

   Broadertorpedo boat

Questions about motor torpedo boat

What does motor torpedo boat mean?

motor torpedo boat means "a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat; P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat".

What is another word for motor torpedo boat?

Close synonyms include PT boat, mosquito boat, mosquito craft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is motor torpedo boat a common word?

motor torpedo boat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.