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Is wayback a Scrabble word?

No, wayback is not in the Scrabble dictionary. Worth 21 points if it were valid.

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What is the meaning of wayback?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (idiomatic) A very remote time or place.Examples: "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."idiomatic

2. (idiomatic) An uneducated person from a remote area.Examples: "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."idiomatic

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.Examples: "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."datedinformal

adv (English)

1. (poetic, nonstandard) Alternative form of way back.Examples: "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"alt-ofalternativenonstandardnot-comparablepoetic

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "wayback"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "wayback"?

Scrabble
21 points
W4
A1
Y4
B3
A1
C3
K5

Not in the Scrabble dictionary, but this is how many points it would be worth.

Words With Friends
22 points
W4
A1
Y4
B4
A1
C4
K5

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