from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. nounIn Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called ananabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mer...
1 Australia a :a blind channel leading out from a river b :a usually dry streambed that is filled seasonally 2 Australia:a backwater forming a stagnant pool Examples ofbillabongin a Sentence taking a break from our trek through the outback, we bathed our tired feet in the still waters of...
Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2022 Fifteen million years ago, a river carved through the jungle, leaving an oxbow lake (known as a billabong in Australia) in its wake at McGraths Flat. New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022 As iron-rich runoff from nearby basalt mountains seeped into the billabong,...
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A common term in parts of Australia but not used in Great Britain or North America. Usage in Australia can be pretty narrow and usage elsewhere in the English-speaking world would be a ground-breaking event. From Wiradjuri (Australian Aboriginal): "an arroyo, a stream that runs only when ...