Land behind which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse.
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(Australia, New Zealand, usually, in the plural) 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.
I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads.
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(Australia, informal, hyperbole#Noun, hyperbolic, usually, in the plural) The most distally outlying suburb among a set of suburbs.
It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.
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