Lower Slobbovia
[loh-er sluh-boh-vee-uh, slo-]
noun
any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
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Origin of Lower Slobbovia
after an imaginary country of that name in the comic strip Li'l Abner by Al Capp; blend of slob and Latinized names of remote places, as Mongolia and Siberia
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