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7 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
originFrom tug + boat. Sense 2 from monthly tugboat, a reference to the saying "our ship has come in," here referring to a small, "reliable" "tugboat" instead of a large windfall.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0