outback

1. (Australia) The most remote and desolate areas of Australia; the desert and areas too arid for growing crops.Examples: "1951 June, W. J. Banks, Flying Doctors of the Outback, The Rotarian, page 23, Communication like this is making a big change in the lives of Australia′s “outback” people."; "In the outback, many people live and work on sheep and cattle ranches."; "The outback′s rich, red soil looked like blood because of all the iron in it, and the vast land was so still and barren that it seemed lifeless."Australiauncountableusually