douche boat
- noun
- /duːʃ boʊt/
- Offensive
- That cove is always packed with douche boats blasting music on the weekends.
Examples
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They rented a douche boat for their friend's birthday celebration.
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Some locals complain about the noise and antics coming from douche boats every summer.
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Look at that douche boat speeding past us!
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Many douche boats gather at the lake every summer.
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Every summer, the lake is filled with douche boats hosting wild parties and loud music.
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They decided to rent a douche boat for a fun day on the water with friends.
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On weekends, you can see many douche boats full of people enjoying the sun and having a great time.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
douche + boat
The phrase is a straightforward noun–noun compound where 'douche' (slang for an obnoxious or obnoxiously behaved person) modifies 'boat', so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a boat associated with douchey/party behaviour. This attributive composition follows regular English word-formation patterns and is therefore directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
Douche boat likely comes from putting the insult douche, meaning a 'rude, annoying person', together with boat to create the image of a small party boat full of loud people who behave badly. So people call a boat a douche boat when they mean the people on it are noisy or rude.