- 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!"
--1 is a kind of city district
- Barbary Coast - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates
--2 is a kind of seashore, coast, seacoast, sea-coast
--2 is a part of Barbary - Barbary Coast - the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates