the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean | the Mediterranean coast of northern Africa that was famous for its Moorish pirates |
| a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849) |
| a region of northern Africa on the Mediterranean coast between Egypt and Gibraltar; was used as a base for pirates from the 16th to 19th centuries |