by the boatload

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: in large numbers
We bought souvenirs by the boatload.

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For five decades, folks in Pensacola, Florida, and in Gulf Shores and Orange Beach along neighboring Alabama’s coastline have been sipping and savoring bushwackers by the boatload. — Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025 Hugely famous in his day, if barely remembered now, Frank Buck was a best-selling author and movie star, renowned for capturing wild animals all over the world and shipping them back to the United States by the boatload. — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024

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