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backblock

noun

Etymology

From back + block.

  1. derived from *bʰelǵ-✻
  2. derived from *blukką✻
  3. derived from *blokk✻
  4. derived from *blok✻
  5. derived from blok
  6. derived from bloc
  7. inherited from blok
  8. compounded as backblock — “back + block”

Definitions

  1. A remote tract of land in the interior

    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.
    • It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.

  2. The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.

  3. Land behind which fronts on water

    Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA