Definitions for billabong

billabong bil·la·bong

Spelling: [bil-uh-bawng, -bong]
IPA: /ˈbɪl əˌbɔŋ, -ˌbɒŋ/

Billabong is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in billabong (abbgillno).

Definitions for billabong

noun

  1. a branch of a river flowing away from the main stream but leading to no other body of water; a blind or dead-end channel.
  2. a creek bed holding water only in the rainy season; a dried-up watercourse.
  3. a stagnant backwater or slough formed by receding floodwater.

Origin of billabong

1830-40; Wiradjuri bilabaŋ creek that runs only during the rainy season, equivalent to bila river + baŋ possessive suffix

Examples for billabong

Remember how I landed you into the billabong the other night!

My word, wouldn't a fire race across the billabong plains this year!

And billabong has adopted you, and we're going to see that you make a success of things.

But I drove the old buggy away from billabong, and I'll drive home now.

From billabong came daily hampers that greatly relieved their labours.

Does he think we've never a scales on billabong, did ye ask him?

The long slow journey to billabong homestead was accomplished.

"But there never was any union touch about billabong," said Mrs. Brown.

He's shaping as well as anyone could expect; but he won't always have billabong at his back.

No one can say the billabong representative doesn't look fit.

Word Value for billabong
Scrable

0

Words with friends

20

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