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PT boat
noun
U.S. Military.
- a small, fast, lightly armed, unarmored, and highly maneuverable boat used chiefly for torpedoing enemy shipping.
PT boat
noun
- patrol torpedo boat, the former US term for an MTB Compare MTB
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of PT boat1
1940鈥45; p(atrol) t(orpedo)
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If the federal agency pivots at a battleship鈥檚 pace after each change of administration, 鈥渢he states are kind of like PT boats that can zip in and out.鈥
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Two Panamanian Navy PT boats pulled up alongside our ship, uncovered their machine guns, and made sure we didn't try to escape.
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North Vietnamese PT boats fought back and had 鈥渕istaken Maddox for a South Vietnamese escort vessel,鈥 according to a report.
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His character, Seaman Joseph Haines, one of a crew of misfits aboard a World War II PT boat, was known as Happy.
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A yachtsman hires a deep-sea diver to find a jeweled cross in a PT boat in postwar Manila.
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