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rogue wave

noun

Definitions

  1. An unexpected, dangerously large wave.

    • Then one giant crest spills green water over the bow and stops our 100-ton vehicle as though it had ploughed into a gargantuan hay bale. . . . The rogue wave our experimental 78-foot craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high.
    • One of her owners, Mark Litchfield, was quoted by United Press International as saying a “rogue wave” might have knocked the ship over.
    • Scientists still don't know exactly how rogue waves occur, nor do they know how to predict them.

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