buoy (n.)

  1. bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards

    buoy (v.)

  1. float on the surface of water

  2. keep afloat; The life vest buoyed him up

    [ Syn: buoy up ]

  3. mark with a buoy

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