boatload

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.

   a boatload of ferry passengers

2. noun A large quantity.

   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.

Similar words

shipload carload cartload bulk wagonload bargeload truckload busload boxload bootload

Often followed by

of after to was from and

Word family

boatloads