Wayback
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Wayback is a noun meaning (idiomatic) A very remote time or place.
Meaning
(idiomatic) A very remote time or place.
More Meanings
- (idiomatic) An uneducated person from a remote area.
- (poetic, nonstandard) Alternative form of way back.
- (dated, informal) An area in the body of a car behind the rearseat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
Example Sentences
Those who live in the “waybacks” should have better roads.
Films and radio have penetrated to the waybacks of New Zealand and to the Pacific Islands.
...another on the sell-by date in the wayback where a living one looks out at maple elm and ash
The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks and waybacks which the Government imagine them to be.
Word Forms
- waybacks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include backbench, back, backstore, rearseat, houseback, back-bench.
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