Meaning of coast guard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The coast guard of a particular armed forces.
2. The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.
3. Ellipsis of United States Coast Guard.
   US, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Examples

“I went down to the coast guard to see what they're guarding / "See what the sign says, you idiot, we're guarding the coast"”

“An ultra-marathoner’s attempt to “run” from Florida to Bermuda in an inflatable bubble was cut short when the Coast Guard towed him back to land – for the second time.”

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