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back-block

back-block is the alternative form of backblock.

Meaning of backblock

Noun

backblock (plural backblocks)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, plural-normally) 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.
    • Near-synonyms: upcountry, interior, hinterland
  2. (Australia, excessive, informal, plural-normally) The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.
  3. Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.

Forms of back-block

pluralback-blocks

Questions about back-block

What is back-block the alternative form of?
Back-block is the alternative form of backblock.

Words near back-block in the dictionary

  1. back-bit
  2. back-bite
  3. back-bites
  4. back-biting
  5. back-bitten
  6. back-block
  7. back-blocks
  8. back-bone
  9. back-bones
  10. back-breaking
  11. back-build

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-block (page history and authors); backblock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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