DCHP-2
back-block DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a block of land in the back country; hence (usually plural) an isolated rural region.
See also: back concession (def. 2a) back country block (def. 1)
- 1910 True it is that men and women in the back-blocks sometimes break down under the stress of adverse circumstances and go mad.
- 1947 Members of the Geological Survey in the backblocks of both Ontario and Quebec still travel in canoes. . . .
- 1956 He looked more like an old-fashioned back-block preacher of the evangelical kind. . . .
- 1910 True it is that men and women in the back-blocks sometimes break down under the stress of adverse circumstances and go mad.