torpedo boat

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   small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters

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Questions about torpedo boat

What does torpedo boat mean?

torpedo boat means "small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters".

Is torpedo boat a common word?

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.