Boatload vs Shipload - What's the difference?
boatload | shipload |
(slang) A large quantity.
* 2006 , Rob Pegoraro, "Waiting for the Winner of a High-Definition High Noon", The Washington Post , December 10 [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/09/AR2006120900011.html]
As nouns the difference between boatload and shipload
is that boatload is a large quantity while shipload is the amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.boatload
English
Noun
(en noun)- He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
- What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.