Definition of outback
: isolated rural country especially of Australia
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people who live in the Australian outback tend to be self-sufficient
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His writing is studded with Aussie slang that takes a few chapters to get used to, but his evocative descriptions of the outback need no translation.
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Annual aerial surveys suggest that there are more than 47m kangaroos bounding through the outback, making them some of the most abundant large vertebrates on earth.
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Yes, the world's largest camel herd is found in the outback as well.
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Sadly, this spectacle provides little navigational help for two scientists fumbling their way through the Australian outback in June 2014.
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If good fences make good neighbors, then humans and dingoes, the feral dogs of the Australian outback, must be the best neighbors of all.
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The fence cuts off the populous, fertile southeastern part of the country, where Melbourne and Sydney are located, from the harsh, arid outback.
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When the world ends, Stuey Bailey will be sitting in a tent upstream of a river in the Australian outback sipping a cup of coffee.
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As Gene Hackman and the Hickory Huskers did their thing, AF2 tracked across the Australian outback — offering a great view of Uluru (once known as Ayers Rock) — and onward to New South Wales.
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First Known Use of outback
1893
outback Synonyms
Synonyms
backcountry, backland(s), backwater, backwoods, bush, frontier, hinterland, up-country;
Related Words
boonies [slang], boondocks, country, countryside, sticks;
Phrases
(the) back of beyond;
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