Open English Wordnet
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(n)Barbary Coasta 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!”
(n)Barbary Coast, Berber Coastthe Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
(n)Barbary, Barbary Coast, Berbery, Berber Coasta region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries