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  • noun informal An especially large ship.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ ship

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Examples

  • Min explained more of her plot: in the not-too-distant future a disgruntled and somewhat crazy professor at Stanford, Professor Richard Locksley, hijacks the university's time-traveling supership and alters history.

    X, Chapter 3: Morowitz Benjamin Matvey 2012

  • It's the latest step in the effort to save the down-on-its-luck supership from the scrap heap.

    Legendary Liner Has New Owner 2011

  • BRUCE MORTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The USS Cole was a billion-dollar supership, a guided missile destroyer equipped for anti-ship, anti-air or anti-submarine warfare.

    CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2001 2001

  • Once the charges are deployed, what are we … what is the crew of this new supership—the Phoenix—supposed to do?

    THE WAR OF THE PROPHETS JUDITH REEVES-STEVENS GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS 2000

  • Once the charges are deployed, what are we … what is the crew of this new supership—the Phoenix—supposed to do?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • Once the charges are deployed, what are we … what is the crew of this new supership—the Phoenix—supposed to do?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • Once the charges are deployed, what are we … what is the crew of this new supership—the Phoenix—supposed to do?

    MILLENNIUM GARFIELD REEVES-STEVENS JUDITH 2000

  • Gradually the battered supership wheezed to the least of trickling power.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

  • Gradually the battered supership wheezed to the least of trickling power.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

  • Gradually the battered supership wheezed to the least of trickling power.

    Flashback Brannon Braga 1996

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