backwood

[US]/'bækwud/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. uncultivated land, remote wooded area.
Word Forms
Pluralbackwoods

Phrases & Collocations

backwoods

Example Sentences

Rover Epaulettes is the first step to the progressive training of Rover Section.Knotting, Campcraft, Pioneering, Backwoods Cooking and First Aid are the major contents of the traditional scoutcraft.

Real-world Examples

The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Every year in the backwoods of Tennessee, there's a race so tough, only 15 people have ever finished it.

Source: CNN 10 Student English May/June 2018 Compilation

For a number of years he lived in the backwoods of Canada and on the plains of the West.

Source: American Elementary School English 6

Now he thinks I'm some kind of...Calling from some backwoods swamp jail, asking to attenuate assault charges...who does that?

Source: "Green Book" Original Soundtrack

It seemed that backwoods morals were involved.

Source: Cross Creek (Part 2)

Listen, see, your family trippin' 'cause they backwoods.

Source: Hey Steven

You've been dug out of the backwoods, you have.

Source: Murder at the golf course

Cheap motels, backwoods cabins. Real paramilitary survivalist type.

Source: Supernatural Season 2

Hi. Are you guys planning a raid on some backwoods moonshiners?

Source: Lost Girl Season 01

I'll finally rule this backwoods town!

Source: Gravity Falls Season 2

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