barra

Examples

• All

• This time of year the barra fishing is only catch and release.

  Black Water (2008)

• The journal says the passageway's about 40 barras.

  King of California (2007)

• The barras came to identify and differentiate themselves by their musical tastes.

  Academic text (1991)

• They form the barras bands of young males and galladas groups of young street males that emerged as part of the popular classes' search for spaces of their own.

  Academic text (1991)

• These young people rejected the label of pandilla, however, and called themselves barras or cuadros—groups of young males.

  Academic text (1991)

• The fisherman proudly showed off his catch: a large barra he had caught in the river.

• During our trip to Australia, we enjoyed grilled barra at a local restaurant by the beach.

• He uses a special technique to catch barra in the freshwater lakes of northern Australia.

Synonyms

B

barramundi

vsbarra

• Australian

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A large Australian fish people eat for its firm white flesh

is the informal Australian name used mainly for the fish in northern freshwater

Surface Forms

Etymology