Meaning & use
Intracoastal
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Situated or occurring within or along a coastline, especially describing protected waterways that run parallel to the coast.
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They sailed the intracoastal waterway to avoid the rougher open ocean.
Homes along the intracoastal canal often come with private docks.
A note on using this word
The term is most familiar from the Intracoastal Waterway, a roughly 3,000-mile system of channels along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
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