barbary coast   (TTS Sound)

The 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!")


• Barbary Coast -- (the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates)