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Definition of "outback" []
- Out to or in remote rural country, especially in Australia or New Zealand. (adverb)
- The remote rural part of a country especially of Australia or New Zealand. (noun)
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Use "outback" in a sentence
- "[Roderick Chisholm, Boundaries as Dependent Particulars (1984: 88)] “The reason why it's vague where the outback begins is not that there's this thing, the outback, with imprecise borders; rather there are many things, with different borders, and nobody has been fool enough to try to enforce a choice of one of them as the official referent of the word ˜outback™.”"
- "The reason it's vague where the outback begins is not that there's this thing, the outback, with imprecise borders; rather there are many things, with different borders, and nobody has been fool enough to try to enforce a choice of one of them as the official referent of the word ˜outback.™"
- "And i know what you mean about the impact of things like tablecloths and such even in "outback" sort of places."
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