Backblock

Quick meaning: Backblock is a noun meaning (Australia, informal, hyperbolic, usually in the plural) The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.

Meaning

(Australia, informal, hyperbolic, usually in the plural) The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.

More Meanings

1. Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, usually in the plural) 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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland

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

The weeping man was an emancipist who had a backblock in the next valley & sometimes came over to see his cobber the shepherd, both being Roscommon men.

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.

Word Forms

• backblocks
• back-block
• back block

Synonyms for backblock

Depending on context, synonyms include backcountry, wop-wops, boondock, upcountry, interior, hinterland.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include block, backyard, backdam, roadblock, pocket, section.

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