wayback
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.53 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An uneducated person from a remote area.
noun
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.
Dated; Informal
adv
Alternative form of way back.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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])"