Meaning of wayback | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A very remote time or place.
   idiomatic
2. An uneducated person from a remote area.
   idiomatic
3. 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.
   dated, informal

Examples

“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.”

“For the first time since beginning his macabre descent into the wayback, Eddie had no compulsion to follow⟳ his past.”

“...another on the sell-by date⟳ in the wayback where a living one looks out at maple elm and ash”

“There were also rumors of a lost love⟳, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in the wayback.”

“I saw⟳ fat men or boys, lean⟳, awkward, baldheaded, asthmatic, rheumatic, waybacks and 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.^([sic])”

“The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks and waybacks which the Government imagine⟳ them to be.”

“Unfortunately those who worked so hard for the fund did not realise⟳ the real needs of the waybacks or indeed of some settlers who are not considered waybacks.”

“That's the right place⟳ for 'er sort⟳—with them waybacks, who don't go to no school, and don't know⟳ nothin'.”

“These "waybacks" are difficult people to deal⟳ with, success depending almost entirely on the sister's personality and her understanding of these mothers' background.”

“Only, Mercury Villagers do not have⟳ waybacks. They have⟳ third seats, rear seats, or cargo areas, but not waybacks.”

“Two hours into the trip⟳ we discovered that Paul suffered from carsickness. Luckily, the wayback was equipped with built-in bins alongside the walls.”

“Jack preferred the wayback, where he could look⟳ out the zippered plastic rear window at where we'd been.”

“The suitcases and the playpen, the Frisbees and the Wiffle Balls are all packed in the wayback of 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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