swift boat
Speech parts
1. swift boat - Noun
2. swift boat - Verb
Meaning
swift boat (plural swift boats)
A small, shallow draft water vessel used by the United States navy for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War; Fast Patrol Craft (PCF).
swift boat (third-person singular simple present swift boats, present participle swift boating, simple past and past participle swift boated)
(US, neologism, derogatory, transitive) to put forth sensational negative stories about a political figure as part of a smear campaign against them, especially regarding their military record
Examples
What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.
What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?"