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shark baiter en · NOUN
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shark, baiter.
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(Australia, colloquial) A lone swimmer or surfer far from shore; shark bait.
1964, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (Australia) Division of Fisheries, et al., Fisheries Newsletter, Volume 23, page 26,
Solitary bathers are more often attacked than groups, Mr. Whitley says, but the “shark-baiter” farthest offshore is not necessarily the one selected.
1912, Arthur Wright, Rung In, pages 34-5, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms,
It might be only some foolhardy ‘shark baiter’ as he heard the more adventuresome of the bathers called.
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