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mother ship

noun

  1. a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.


mother ship

noun

  1. a ship providing facilities and supplies for a number of small vessels
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of mother ship1

First recorded in 1885–90
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“Iran launched a mother ship that contains these drones. It’s off the East Coast of the United States of America. They’ve launched drones.”

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Farah and Diiriye say their aim is to hijack a medium-sized vessel deep in the Indian Ocean and then make it back to their mother ship, using its GPS tracking system to find bigger ships to target.

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“I’m going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mother ship that contains these drones,” Van Drew said on Fox News on Wednesday.

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Van Drew further wrote a letter to the president that states that while he further remained open to “alternate explanations for the drones,” he’s pretty sure it’s Iran, and he’s pretty sure they’ve got a mother ship out there.

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To be fair to Van Drew, the federal government could be doing much more to alleviate people’s fears about these drones—and limit the conspiracies—by not just refuting that they’re coming from an Iranian mother ship off of Wildwood, but by saying what they are.

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