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U-boat

[yoo-boht]
–noun
a German submarine.

Origin:
1910–15; < G U-Boot, short for Unterseeboot lit., undersea boat
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U-boat 
1916 (said to have been in use from 1913), partial translation of Ger. U-boot, short for Unterseeboot, lit. "undersea boat."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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