barbary Definition

a tailless monkey (Macaca sylvanus) of northern Africa and Gibraltar —called also Barbary macaque

a wild, chiefly brown bovine (Ammotragus lervia) that is closely related to goats and sheep, is native to dry, rocky, mountainous terrain of North Africa but has been introduced into the southwestern U.S., northern Mexico, and Spain, and has a fringe of long hairs extending from the neck to the inner forelegs and horns that curve outward, back, and down : aoudad

region of northern Africa extending from Egypt to the Atlantic and including the former Barbary States (Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli)—a chiefly former name

section of San Francisco formerly noted as a center of gambling, prostitution, and riotous nightlife —an informal name