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waybacks

waybacks is the plural of wayback.

Meaning of wayback

Noun

wayback (plural waybacks)

  1. (idiomatic) A very remote time or place.
    • Those who live in the “waybacks” should have better roads.1955, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives
  2. (idiomatic) An uneducated person from a remote area.
    • 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...1893, Robert Blair Risk, Observed and Noted, page 400
  3. (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.
    • Only, Mercury Villagers do not have waybacks. They have third seats, rear seats, or cargo areas, but not waybacks.2005, C.J. Hribal, The Company Car: A Novel, →ISBN, page 4

Questions about waybacks

What is waybacks the plural of?
Waybacks is the plural of wayback.

Words near waybacks in the dictionary

  1. Wayao
  2. Wayatinah
  3. wayback
  4. wayback machine
  5. wayback machines
  6. waybacks
  7. waybeam
  8. waybeams
  9. waybill
  10. waybilled
  11. waybilling

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