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shark baiter

noun 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. 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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@misc{shark_baiter_2026,
  title = {shark baiter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shark%20baiter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}