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dinghy

[ding-gee] / ˈdɪŋ gi /
NOUN
boat
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Russian rapper Yegor Krid dialed a friend as he relaxed on a floating dinghy in a music clip released last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The colonizers, four Chagossians aged 31 to 72, clambered aboard a dinghy and came ashore, waving British and American flags.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Some 39 people on a rubber dinghy were rescued on Thursday just south of Crete.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

After four months of being exploited in Libya, Esther escaped and crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy from which she was rescued by the Italian coast guard and taken to the island of Lampedusa.

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2025

They pulled up beside a boat that was dark and empty and tied their dinghy to its stern.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt