shark baiter
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shark baiter (plural shark baiters)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shark, baiter.
- (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.
- 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,
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