“Nautical Terms You Can Giggle at But You May be Broken,” by Simon Pinkerton
Feb 22nd, 2017 | By Defenestration![](https://www.defenestrationmag.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Defenestration-Nonfiction.jpg)
Poop deck—where you walk about on the boat. The classic rude boating term.
Head—the toilet on a boat, and also a term for oral sex that Lou Reed thought rhymes with “head” (I know, it’s the same word!).
Abreast—when two boats lay together in a way the Bible probably frowns upon; a boob.