Definition of "pigboat" [pigboat]

• Slang A submarine. (noun)

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• "A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat."
• "Not many of us in the pigboat fleet left either. ""