Barbary Coast
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Noun
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!"
Noun
the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates