A team-based drinking contest. Opposing teams (usu. 5 members each) sit opposite eachother along a table. At the gun, the first member of each team drinks their beverage (usu. beer) as quickly as possible. Upon completion, each player slams his/her mug to the table, signifying that the next teammate can begin their drink, like a relay race. At the end of the table, the last team member (called 'the Anchor') must complete two drinks before play proceeds back through each team (the 'return trip') until the first player of the winning team finishes his/her second drink.

We were doing boat races last night at the Student Union building, but Pete had four shots before we started and he couldn't finish the return trip.

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Boat raced - slang

Cockney rhyming slang for face. Sometimes, but not usually shortened to boat. The term received wider recognition in 1979 when the Monks released their recording of “Shame about her face”.

Nice legs shame about her boat race.

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Boat raced

In a sporting event, the team getting out to an early lead and coasting home.

The Detroit Lions will get boat raced this weekend.

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Boat raced

to be badly beaten at something

"How did the baseball game go?" "We got boat raced." "It was 15 to 0"

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Boat raced

To be beaten very badly at something, especially in such a fashion that you were behind from the start and never had a chance. Comes from the Boat Race, an annual rowing competition between Oxford and Cambridge, in which the first side to get ahead can move to the middle of the river (where the current is fastest) and is almost never overtaken thereafter.

"Chicago got boat raced by Green Bay, 37-3."

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