wop-wops

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wop-wops (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) An out of the way place; the boondocks or backcountry.
   • 1979, Essie Summers, Lake of the Kingfisher,^[1] ISBN 0373022395, page 44,

     Still, things could happen out here in the wop-wops.

   • 1997 July 17, Sir Michael Hardie Boys, speech as Governor-General,^[2]

     Just because we live out in the global wop wops, geographically-speaking - both derivation and historical usage are given on page 923, by the way - or perhaps because we do live more than a thousand kilometres from our nearest English-speaking neighbours who, too, have evolved their own form of the tongue - we have developed our own ways of describing things, talking together, sharing our observations and views.