Noun has 2 senses

• barbary coast(n = noun.location) - 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(n = noun.location) - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates;