dreamboat n.
(orig. US)1. (also charmboat, dream bait) a particularly attractive man or woman, the fuel of one’s fantasies.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Slanguage Dict. 61: Somebody’s rocking my dream boat – another fellow is dating my girl. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Three-Ha’Pence to the Angel 189: Every time a new face turns up, it’s ’er dream boat. | |
| Long Good-Bye 133: He didn’t kid himself he was any dreamboat, just a steady worker bringing home the pay-cheque. | |
| Swell-Looking Babe 3: A dream boat — and that’s the way he’d better leave her. | |
| Dud Avocado (1960) 171: Stefan [...] is a great charmboat in a twinkling, grey-haired, pink and paunchy way. I just love sexy fat men. | |
| Out of the Burning (1961) 203: What a solid doll, a dreamboat. | |
| , | | DAS 162/1: dream bait An attractive, personable, popular person of either sex. |
| Homosexuality & Citizenship in Florida 27: Glossary of Homosexual Terms [...] dreamboat: A term used to characterize an unusually attractive homosexual. | |
| Concrete Kimono 10: Your Lord Mayor is a dreamboat. | |
| Nova Apr. 83: Walls plastered with Mick Jagger, Steve McQueen and all the impossible riches of the occident: their ideals, their dreamboats. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Cat’s Eye (1989) 207: Don’t you think he’s a dreamboat? | |
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Breakfast on Pluto 32: O he was a dreamboat, that old Dummy Teat. | |
| Experience 78: Bruno was the dreamboat who always danced with the wallflower. | |
| Sun. Times (London) Culture 19 Mar. 🌐 Prince Filippo Orsini, a top dignitary in the Vatican hierarchy who [...] romanced the British dreamboat Belinda Lee. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
| Guardian Rev. 21 Apr. 14: The perfect dreamboat hair. |
3. something particularly attractive, esp. a car.
| 12 June diary in Garfield Our Hidden Lives (2004) 41: I had to dodge an American jeep [...] The jeep had the name ‘Dream Boat’ on it. | |
| On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 328: ‘ What a dreamboat [...] Think if you and I had a car like this what we could do. | |
| Real Cool Killers (1969) 89: He had a dream boat, a big green Caddy. | |
| Go, Man, Go! 70: ‘What a dreamboat!’ Margy exclaimed. ‘Not you. The wagon.’. | |
| Death of a Citizen 71: We’ll go back to young Mr. Blackhat and his Plymouth dreamboat. | |
| Flesh Peddlers (1964) 19: It’s [a beach house] a dream boat. |
4. a general term of admiration or affection (also used ironically).
| Little Sister 76: On your way, dreamboat. | |
| ‘Pretty Boy’ in Tell Them Nothing (1956) 124: Dreamboat, light it [i.e. a marijuana cigarette] for me. | |
| Déjàvu Act I: And? What did you reply, dreamboat? |