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The character of Queenie, a riverboat cook, was originally played by a white actor in blackface.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Hope finds Mel at the riverboat where the rehearsal dinner is happening (a riverboat!!!
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
The train-gun-chase equivalent in Vengeance Most Fowl comes when, after a lengthy riverboat pursuit, Feathers and Gromit come to blows on the top of a boat.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Dan Campbell — one of the biggest riverboat gamblers the league has ever seen — opted to go for it.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Hope finds Mel at the riverboat where the rehearsal dinner is happening (a riverboat!!!
—Sara Netzley, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
The train-gun-chase equivalent in Vengeance Most Fowl comes when, after a lengthy riverboat pursuit, Feathers and Gromit come to blows on the top of a boat.
—Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
Dan Campbell — one of the biggest riverboat gamblers the league has ever seen — opted to go for it.
—Rob Reischel, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Riverboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riverboat. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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riverboat
noun
riv·er·boat
-ˌbōt 
: a boat used (as for carrying passengers or freight) on a river
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