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"etymology_text": "Origin and development contested; possibly from the use of fire-blackened tree-stumps when providing directions to people, or from a particular black stump: see Wikipedia. Attested since the 20th century, and possibly developed in the 19th century.",
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"ref": "2002, John Perry, Quick and the Dead: Stawell and Its Race Through Time, page 118",
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"ref": "2004, Leon F. Williams, Rubies of Mogok, Trafford, page 104",
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"ref": "2004, John Leonard Spencer, Waving Goodbye to a Thousand Flies, page 241",
"text": "Kimberly, his eldest daughter who we love dearly, is very pregnant with our great grand daughter, the father of whom I have never met and who has shot through to the outback far beyond the black stump.",
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"In an extremely isolated place, remote from populated areas; in the middle of nowhere. Typically used to refer to outback areas."
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"(Australia, informal, idiomatic) In an extremely isolated place, remote from populated areas; in the middle of nowhere. Typically used to refer to outback areas."
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"word": "back o' Bourke"
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