any of several species of very large web-footed seabirds that are with long narrow wings related to the petrels and include the largest seabirds: genera Diomedea and Phoebetria
an encumbrance or handicap
a golf score of three strokes less than par on a hole
[prob alteration of alcatras water bird, from Portuguese or Spanish alcatraz pelican; (sense 2) from the dead albatross hung round the neck of a sailor in the poem The Ancient Mariner by S T Coleridge; (sense 3) suggested by birdie1 (2) and eagle1]