backblocks

American  

[bak-bloks] / ˈbækˌblɒks /

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. the outback.

   They live in the backblocks.

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backblocks British  

/ ˈbækˌblɒks /

plural noun

1. bush or remote farming area far distant from city amenities

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Other Word Forms

• backblock adjective
• backblocker noun

Etymology

Origin of backblocks

First recorded in 1870–75; back ¹ + block + -s ³

Example Sentences

I meet Stone on a rehearsal break in the backblocks of Sydney’s Fox studios.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

She began as Vickie Lynn Hogan, a peroxide-blond waitress from the dusty Texas backblocks.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

Along the Ophir River, in the far "backblocks" of Queensland in the '80s, life bravely tried to illustrate Hobbes's definition of man's existence in a state of nature as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short."

From Time Magazine Archive

You'll be jolly glad to get rid of me and be off with the uncle into the backblocks.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora

Marcella, I was a cad to bring you out here into the backblocks, just because I wanted to escape temptation.

From Captivity by Eyles, M. Leonora