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What (who) is starboard - definition

SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED PHRASE MEANT TO REPRESENT AN ACRONYM
Bacronym; Backcronym; Backronyms; Reverse acronym; Forced acronym; Posh (nautical term); BACRONYMS; Port Out, Starboard Home; Port Outward, Starboard Home; Mynorca; Reverse-acronym; Port outward, starboard home; Port out, starboard home

starboard      
In sailing, the starboard side of a ship is the right side when you are on it and facing towards the front. (TECHNICAL)
He detected a ship moving down the starboard side of the submarine.
? port
ADJ
Starboard is also a noun.
I could see the fishing boat to starboard.
N-UNCOUNT: usu to N
starboard      
I. n.
(Naut.) Right-hand side (of a vessel, to a person looking forward).
II. a.
(Naut.) Right.
starboard      
['st?:b?:d, -b?d]
¦ noun the side of a ship or aircraft on the right when one is facing forward. The opposite of port3.
¦ verb turn (a ship or its helm) to starboard.
Origin
OE steorbord 'rudder side' (see steer1, board), because early Teutonic sailing vessels were steered with a paddle on the right side.

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Backronym

A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase. Backronyms may be invented with either serious or humorous intent, or they may be a type of false etymology or folk etymology. The word is a portmanteau of back and acronym.

An acronym is a word derived from the initial letters of the words of a phrase, such as radar from "radio detection and ranging". By contrast, a backronym is "an acronym deliberately formed from a phrase whose initial letters spell out a particular word or words, either to create a memorable name or as a fanciful explanation of a word's origin." Many fictional espionage organizations are backronyms, such as SPECTRE (special executive for counterintelligence, terrorism, revenge and extortion) from the James Bond franchise.

For example, the Amber Alert missing-child program was named after Amber Hagerman, a nine-year-old girl who was abducted and murdered in 1996. Officials later publicized the backronym "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response".

Examples of use of starboard
1. The bags started listing heavily to starboard, looking as if they might fall.
2. Breathing in on one straw steers the boat to starboard; breathing out guides it to port.
3. "I watched the target, which started to pass down the starboard side," he added.
4. Maybe they were decanting through the starboard exits to avoid the simmering engine.
5. The starboard side of the ship, which faced dockside, showed no damage.