Australian
as in pool
a small often deep body of water taking a break from our trek through the outback, we bathed our tired feet in the still waters of a billabong

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Recent Examples of billabong Sonia Namarnyilk layered three stencils to print complex patterns of mermaid-like water spirits, their fluid, bright orange undulations interspersed with playful turtles and rippling billabong plants. 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, the pool’s low pH caused the iron to precipitate and encase the organic material. New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022 The plants and creatures were fossilized when iron-rich groundwater drained into a billabong, or water hole. Katie Hunt, CNN, 7 Jan. 2022 Recreation in the summer shrinks to barbecues, swimming in the billabong, and drinking stubbies, or bottles of beer, on Big Red under the stars. Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2016
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  • Toro gave the seven-story townhouse a grand makeover including an indoor pool, roof terrace, and artisanal furniture.
    Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Players are competing for a $350,000 prize pool, with the winner taking home $200,000.
    Staff And Wire Reports, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The myriad indignities of winter now seem too much to bear—the slushy puddles, the numb fingers, that frigid first step out of the shower—all of it interminable, day after dreary day.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The Baltimore-area healthcare professional briefly dipped her toe back into the media puddle to watch President Jimmy Carter’s funeral, but quickly returned to limited consumption of the news.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 18 Jan. 2025
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  • Marsh reported the carcasses to the Whiting Parks Department, who then found about 40 birds in the lake’s ice shelf.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Another eruption in August of 1992 heated a small lake in the mountain's crater to the boiling point.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2025

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“Billabong.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billabong. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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