Usually means: Shelter for slaves before transport.
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  1. barracoon: Merriam-Webster
  2. barracoon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barracoon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barracoon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barracoon: Wordnik
  6. barracoon: Wiktionary
  7. barracoon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. barracoon: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Barracoon, barracoon: Dictionary.com
  10. Barracoon (disambiguation), Barracoon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Barracoon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. barracoon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Barracoon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. barracoon: FreeDictionary.org
  15. barracoon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. barracoon: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. barracoon: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A temporary cage for holding (originally) black slaves, and later convicts and other types of prisoners.

Similar:
cage, crow cage, barrack, coop, compound, icebox, house of detention, saltbox, calaboose, dog basket, more...

Opposite:
free, liberated, emancipated

Adjectives:
infernal, large, nearest, old, separate, own, spanish, great

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Similar:
cage, crow cage, barrack, coop, compound, icebox, house of detention, saltbox, calaboose, dog basket, more...

Opposite:
free, liberated, emancipated

Adjectives:
infernal, large, nearest, old, separate, own, spanish, great



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