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shark baiters

shark baiters is the plural of shark baiter.

Meaning of shark baiter

Noun

shark baiter (plural shark baiters)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shark, baiter.
  2. (Australia, colloquial) A lone swimmer or surfer far from shore; shark bait.
    • It might be only some foolhardy ‘shark baiter’ as he heard the more adventuresome of the bathers called.1912, Arthur Wright, Rung In, pages 34-5, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms

Questions about shark baiters

What is shark baiters the plural of?
Shark baiters is the plural of shark baiter.

Words near shark baiters in the dictionary

  1. shark
  2. shark attack
  3. shark attacks
  4. shark bait
  5. shark baiter
  6. shark baiters
  7. Shark Bay
  8. Shark Bay mallee
  9. shark bite
  10. shark catfish
  11. shark catfishes

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