Usually means: Emergency flotation device for survival.
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  1. life raft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. life raft: Merriam-Webster
  3. life raft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. life raft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. life raft: Collins English Dictionary
  6. life raft: Vocabulary.com
  7. life-raft: Wordnik
  8. life raft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. life raft: Wiktionary
  10. life raft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. life raft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. life raft: Dictionary.com
  13. Life raft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. life raft: Rhymezone
  15. life raft: FreeDictionary.org
  16. life raft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. life raft: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. life raft: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. life raft: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (life raft)

noun:  A usually inflatable raft carried aboard a ship or airplane, used to save lives in case the vessel has to be abandoned in an emergency on the sea.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that provides help in a state of difficulty or despair.

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