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An illness characterized by vomiting after taking food and associated with parts of Australia, esp. Queensland. Cf. Barcoo, n.
Used attributively (in Barcoo rot, Barcoo spew, etc.) and elliptically to designate certain local conditions, phenomena, etc. (see quots.).