Clues for the word "BUOY"
We've had 69 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 113 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 13, 2025.
Definition of buoy
- n. - A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
- v. t. - To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- v. t. - To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- v. t. - To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- v. i. - To float; to rise like a buoy.
Referring Clues
- Marking float
- Uplift
- Bay bobber
- Channel marker
- Hazard warning
- Water mark?
- Marker used by fishermen
- Navigator's marker
- Bob in a bay
- Harbor bobber
- Bobber in a harbor
- Elevate
- Channel tinkler
- Ocean marker
- Waterway marker
- Hazard marker
- Boating area marker
- Float used to mark channels
- Floating marker
- Gull's perch
- Regatta marker
- Gull's counterpart, in a maritime pun
- Floater for boaters
- Lift
- It may float in the harbor
- Marker for boaters
- Give a lift
- Cheer up
- Bobbing sea marker
- Nurture
- Marker bobbing on the water
- Belled bay bobber
- Sailing marker
- Encourage, with "up"
- Floating marker for a sailor
- Harbor marker
- Floating marker in the sea
- Gulls perch
- Marker floating in the water
- Mooring site
- Hearten
- Something to see on the sea
- Floating perch for a seagull
- Floating harbor marker
- Navigational hazard marker
- Ocean floater with a bell
- Keep afloat
- Floating navigation mark
- Floating sea marker
- Anchored float
- Distinctive float fixed to seabed
- Floating item often marking a hazard
- Rise makes young man about turn
- Bravo, you upset cardinal as an example
- Water marker
- Vessel's guide
- Floater in the ocean
- Gull's floating perch
- Harbor sight
- Channel bobber
- Bobbing thing
- Navigational marker in the ocean
- Marina marker
- Bobbing harbor marker
- Floating marker on a swim course
- Bobbing ocean marker
- Nautical marker
- Object marked with the speed limit, sometimes
- Bobber in a lake
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 13, 2025
- New York Times - October 21, 2025
- New York Times - September 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - April 22, 2025
- New York Times - February 25, 2025
- Mirror Mini - February 25, 2025
- New York Times - February 18, 2025
- USA Today - April 01, 2024
- LA Times - March 02, 2024
- LA Times - August 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - May 11, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 31, 2023
- USA Today - December 29, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 25, 2022
- New York Times - March 28, 2022
- Netword - January 01, 2018
- USA Today - December 11, 2017
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - August 08, 2017
- Netword - August 07, 2017
- USA Today - June 19, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 16, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - May 17, 2017
- LA Times - April 01, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 21, 2017
- Mirror Mini - February 25, 2017
- Netword - September 23, 2016
- USA Today - September 15, 2016
- Family Time - August 01, 2016
- Netword - July 23, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - July 18, 2016
- And in 83 more crossword puzzles...