A regatta is a sports event consisting of races between yachts or rowing boats. a sports event at which there are races for rowing boats or sailing boats (regattare )
An illegal immigrant or refugee attempting to enter the country by sea; an immigrant of the boat people
Get an Esky, fill it full of cans, get your dope, go down to the beach, roll a big spliff about that long sit on the beach at sunset, have a few cans, and watch what they call up in Darwin the Refugee Regatta.
a series of boat races for rowing boats, held every year on the river Thames near the town of Henley in the south of England. Henley is also a fashionable social event, especially for rich and upper-class people
[ ri-'gä-t&, -'ga- ] (noun.) 1652. From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from recatare