outback
noun
Usually the outback the back country or remote settlements; the bush.
outbacks
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pluralof outback.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He’s read the great classics as well — Chaucer, for example — and is amused that people living in rural outbacks didn’t spend their college years in Middle English seminars.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2015
Several trouble spots remain, but hundreds of families are returning to their lands in seven newly declared zones of "total pacification" in the outbacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
