- a remote and undeveloped area
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- Partly or wholly uncleared forest, especially in North America; A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life; Pertaining to the backwoods; Rough, uncouth, coarse, or crude in social matters