hell ship (English, noun)
expansion: hell ship (plural hell ships)
Senses:
glosses: A ship (sailing vessel) with extremely inhumane living conditions or with a reputation for cruelty among the crew, especially one of those used by the Japanese to transport Allied prisoners of war and Asian slave labourers out of the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Hong Kong, and Singapore in World War II.
tags: historical
Forms:
form: hell ships
tags: plural