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outback
noun
the remote regions of Australia AUSTRALIA, 1893- So she fled in terror along the dusty track which led north from the Fields into the remote outback, the centre of Australia. — Jean Brooks, The Opal Witch, p. 135, 1967
- Is it like this in the outback too? — Janie Stagestruck, p. 81, 1972
▶ go outback
to go to the toilet for the purpose of defecation AUSTRALIA- You may speak of a “movement” or “sit on the seat” Have a passage or stool–or simply excrete Or say to the others “I’m going outback.” — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 34, 1979
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