barbary coast

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Noun barbary coast has 2 senses

Barbary Coast - a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849); "we'll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city!"
--₁ is a kind of city district
Barbary Coast - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
--₂ is a kind of seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coast
--₂ is a part of Barbary

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