Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
a boatload of ferry passengers
A large quantity.
He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
From boat + load. The figurative sense is extended from the literal sense.
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