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plural gunboats
(nautical) Any of the various types of small armed vessels. examples
(slang) A couple of large shoes. quotations
[…] and Tracey nodded, as he shifted his weight from the right to the left gunboat.
1932, James T. Farrell, chapter 2, in Young Lonigan, New York: Vanguard Press, pages 55–56