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boatlift

n. 1 The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or goods by boat, especially an exodus of people. 2 (also boat lift) A mechanism for lifting boats from the water, or between water on different elevations.

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Then, well, there was this thing called the Mariel Boatlift in the 1970s, under that bastard idjit Carter.

Of course, 1980 was the year of the Liberty City riots and the Mariel boatlift, so only nine travel writers showed up, several of them carrying guns for protection.

If the two men had arrived during the 1980 Mariel boatlift, they would have been fingerprinted.