PT boat

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Three PT boats underway.

Etymology[edit]

Initialism of patrol torpedo boat.

Noun[edit]

PT boat (plural PT boats)

  1. (military, US) A type of fast motor torpedo boat used by the US Navy during World War II.
    • 1943, Lawrence Conant, quoting Charles Edison, “The PT Boats: Weapons of Opportunity”, in William Harrison Fetridge, editor, The Navy Reader:
      The PT boat is not merely a small boat for attack in rivers and inland seas. It is a deadly offensive weapon for use under the most trying conditions [...]
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