wayback

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic)A veryremotetime or place.1955, New Zealand. Parliament,Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives:Those who live in the “waybacks” should have better roads.1968, Ralph Herbert Brookes, Ian Hugh Kawharu,Administration in New Zealand's Multi-racial Society - Issue 13, page76:Films and radio have penetrated to thewaybacksof New Zealand and to the Pacific Islands.2009, Patrick Millikin,Phoenix Noir,→ISBN:For the first time since beginning his macabre descent into thewayback, Eddie had no compulsion to follow his past.2018Winter, Carol Ann Davis, “Another Darkness”, inSouthern Review, volume54, number 1, page121:...another on the sell-by date in thewaybackwhere a living one looks out at maple elm and ash2014, Homer Hickam,Crater Trueblood and the Lunar Rescue Company,→ISBN, page 1:There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in thewayback.; (idiomatic)Anuneducatedpersonfrom aremotearea.1893, Robert Blair Risk,Observed and Noted, page400:I saw fat men or boys, lean, awkward, baldheaded, asthmatic, rheumatic,waybacksand the last editions of the nursery, blowing at that light, when along would come some stray, solemn detachment of the human telegraph line, give a puff, clasp Liberty abover her head and whirl off in the full confidence that in time he would elope with the whole female kindergarden.1895,Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada:The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks andwaybackswhich the Government imagine them to be.1913,Australasian Medical Gazette, page239:Unfortunately those who worked so hard for the fund did not realise the real needs of thewaybacksor indeed of some settlers who are not consideredwaybacks.1920, George Sargant,The Winding Track, page20:That's the right place for 'er sort—with themwaybacks, who don't go to no school, and don't know nothin'.1954,International Child Welfare Review - Volume 8, page41:These "waybacks" are difficult people to deal with, success depending almost entirely on the sister's personality and her understanding of these mothers' background.; (dated,informal)Anareain thebodyof acarbehind therearseat, such as the back of astation wagon,storagewellin aVWbug, etc.2005, C.J. Hribal,The Company Car: A Novel,→ISBN, page 4:Only, Mercury Villagers do not havewaybacks. They have third seats, rear seats, or cargo areas, but notwaybacks.2009, Gloria VanDemmeltraadt,Musing and Munching: A Memoir and Cookbook,→ISBN, page43:Two hours into the trip we discovered that Paul suffered from carsickness. Luckily, thewaybackwas equipped with built-in bins alongside the walls.2010, Hugh Macmullan,Larke, El Capitan and the Theory of Everything,→ISBN, page52:Jack preferred thewayback, where he could look out the zippered plastic rear window at where we'd been.2010, Jim McGavran,In the Shadow of the Bear: A Michigan Memoir,→ISBN:The suitcases and the playpen, the Frisbees and the Wiffle Balls are all packed in thewaybackof the car; the snacks are on the floor of the front seat where Deje can dole them out to our hungry kids as we drive south towards Charlotte.

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