shark bait

shark bait
Swimmer who is furthest from shore.

1912: It might be only some foolhardy shark baiter as he heard the more adventuresome of the bathers called. — Arther Wright, Rung In, pages 34-5. (Quoted in A dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms by G. A. Wilkes.)


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