tugboat

1. A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.

   Schlepper, Schleppschiff, Schleppboot

   букси́рbuksír, букси́рное су́дноbuksírnoje súdno

   букси́рbuksýr

   a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

2. (Internet, euphemistic, rare)A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat

1. Tom works on a tugboat.

   Том працює на буксирі.

   ruТом работает на буксире.

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2. Tom used to be a tugboat captain.

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3. That sounds like our tugboat horn.

   ruА это похоже на гудок буксира.

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4. He's a tugboat captain.

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5. The tugboat guided the ship into the Algiers port.

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