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barbary coast is a noun meaning "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)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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!”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for barbary coast come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.