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Definition of Barracoutas
1. barracouta [n] - See also: barracouta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barracoutas
Literary usage of Barracoutas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1838)
"... and barracoutas, whose eager diving and plunging for them threw the water into
quite a turmoil. We found their flesh dry and but indifferent eating. ..."
2. The Technologist (1861)
"... says that " the means of recognising barracoutas that are in a condition to
produce mischief (état mal-faisant) is that the root of their teeth, ..."
3. Crusoe's Island: A Bird-hunter's Story by Frederick Albion Ober (1898)
"We lose many of our birds—How Polly cheated Thomas Ned— Man Friday digs out a
dugout—Catching sharks with a fish for a fishhook—barracoutas, angel, Jew, ..."
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