billabong
- n a stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently
- n a branch of a river made by water flowing from the main stream only when the water level is high
- And why, when they go to the nearby billabong to catch turtles, they throw a stick in the water first, scan the surface for bubbles, and always post a lookout.
- Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong, "You'll never take me alive," said he.
- The mysterious bunyip, the legendary beastie that lives at the bottom of the placid Australian billabong, is less strange to Australians than Herbert Vere Evatt.