backblock
A remote tract of land in the interior; hence (in plural) sparsely populated country far from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
Noun
- A remote tract of land in the interior; hence (in plural) sparsely populated country far from major cities and lacking conveniences common in urban areas.
- Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland
- I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads. - 1931, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary...
- It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks. - 1955, Helen Wilson, My First Eighty Years, page 185:
Synonyms: backcountry wop-wops boondock upcountry interior hinterland
Hypernyms: country land area region place location
Coordinate Terms: frontcountry
- The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.
- Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.
Origin
From back + block.