Usually means: Small, powerful boat for towing.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word tugboat:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tugboat: Merriam-Webster
  2. tugboat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tugboat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tugboat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tugboat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tugboat, tugboat: Wordnik
  7. tugboat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tugboat: Wiktionary
  9. tugboat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tugboat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tugboat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tugboat: Dictionary.com
  13. tugboat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. TUGboat, Tugboat (disambiguation), Tugboat (wrestler), Tugboat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Tugboat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. tugboat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. tugboat: Rhymezone
  18. tugboat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. tugboat: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tugboat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tugboat: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugboat: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugboat: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tugboat: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. The Tugboat, tugboat: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tugboating as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tugboat)

noun:  (nautical) A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

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