pigboatn.
/ˈpɪɡbəʊt/, U.S. /ˈpɪɡˌboʊt/ North American Navy slang (now chiefly historical).
A submarine.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > submarine
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killer submarine1955
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1921 Periscope (U.S. Submarine Base, San Pedro, Calif.) Apr. 21/1 The dukes what passes the exam..finally goes to the subs..and they career as a pig bout[sic] sailor is started. This of course, means a sub, witch they is also called sea pigs.
1944 Nevada State Jrnl. 10 Mar. 1/4 Already, the American pigboats have virtually isolated Truk and Saipan, Japan's major Central Pacific bases.
1994 T. Clancy Debt of Honor Prol. 41 Or maybe the Iranians had finally heard the old seamans' moniker for submarines and decided not to touch their new naval vessels again—they'd once been known as ‘pigboats’, after all.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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