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back o' beyond

back o' beyond is the alternative form of back of beyond.

Meaning of back of beyond

Noun

the back of beyond

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, informal, usually) A very remote place.
    • [Y]ou, wi’ some o’ your auld warld stories, that the mind o’ man canna resist, whirl’d them to the back o’ beyont to look at the auld Roman camp—[…]1816, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in The Antiquary. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page...
    Synonyms:
    beyond the black stump, remote place

Forms of back o' beyond

pluralback o' beyonds

Questions about back o' beyond

What is back o' beyond the alternative form of?
Back o' beyond is the alternative form of back of beyond.

Words near back o' beyond in the dictionary

  1. back mutation
  2. back nine
  3. back nines
  4. back number
  5. back numbers
  6. back o' beyond
  7. back o' Bourke
  8. back of beyond
  9. back of Godspeed
  10. back of house
  11. back of one's hand

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