Definition of "backwoods" []

• Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas. (noun-plural)
• An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward. (noun-plural)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Maybe in backwoods Alaska she can say what she wants, but in now she's where she can be sued for her lies ..."
• "And the Conservative cause no longer can be found at the tweedy, collegiate haunts but rather prefers to be spread out at some beer bar in backwoods Alabama."
• "I'm alternately running and driving through this Gaimanesque forest/Wisconsin backwoods, when I get to THE BORDER."