coast guard

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

Equivalents

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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