wayback

noun

1. (idiomatic)A very remote time or place.

   “Those who live in the “waybacks” should have better roads.”

   “Films and radio have penetrated to the waybacks of New Zealand and to the Pacific Islands.”

   “For the first time since beginning his macabre descent into the wayback, Eddie had no compulsion to follow his past.”

   “...another on the sell-by date in the wayback where a living one looks out at maple elm and ash”

   “There were also rumors of a lost love, a common Helium-3 miner who'd since disappeared somewhere in the wayback.”

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 confidence that in time he would elope with the whole female kindergarden.^([sic])”

   “The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks and waybacks which the Government imagine them to be.”

   “Unfortunately those who worked so hard for the fund did not realise the real needs of the waybacks or indeed of some settlers who are not considered waybacks.”

   “That's the right place for 'er sort—with them waybacks, who don't go to no school, and don't know nothin'.”

   “These "waybacks" are difficult people to deal with, success depending almost entirely on the sister's personality and her understanding of these mothers' background.”

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.”

   “Two hours into the trip we discovered that Paul suffered from carsickness. Luckily, the wayback was equipped with built-in bins alongside the walls.”

   “Jack preferred the wayback, where he could look out the zippered plastic rear window at where we'd been.”

   “The suitcases and the playpen, the Frisbees and the Wiffle Balls are all packed in the wayback of the car; the snacks are on the floor of the front seat where Deje can dole them out to our hungry kids as we drive south towards Charlotte.”

adv

1. (alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, not-comparable, poetic)Alternative form of way back.

   “I wailed & wailed In coffee shops wayback when Especially on lucrative weekends”

   “Wayback, prime suspects in the knife-back night Shimmied the tower out on butch-house pike.”

   “I'ld^([sic]) be living in a great big palace And drinking my wine from an emerald studed^([sic]) chalice I'ld wear a crown made of silver and gold like it was wayback in time of old”