PWC

PWC

English

Noun

PWC (plural PWCs)

1. Initialism of personal watercraft.
   • 1990 March, Cliff Gromer, Firsthand Report: Yamaha WaveRunner III, Popular Mechanics, page 104,

     Clearly, Yamaha saw a trend coming when it designed this big PWC. Since the Callaway Gardens introduction, Bombardier debuted its own 3-person watercraft, the Sea-Doo GT.

   • 2000, South Carolina Environmental Law Journal, Volumes 9-10, page 17,

     Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, serious criticism of our culture of consumption and domination, symbolized nicely by PWC, was very often thought un-American and unacceptable.

   • 2010, Office of the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property‎, page 120:

     (g) Personal water craft (PWC). (1) PWC may operate on Lake Meredith except in the following closed areas: stilling basin below Sanford Dam, within 750 feet of the Sanford Dam intake tower, and on the waters of the Canadian River.

Anagrams

• CWP, PCW, WPC