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woop woop Austral. and N.Z.|ˈwʊpwʊp|
Also woop-woop(s, wop-wop.
[Sham Aboriginal (but see below).]
a. A jocular name for a remote rural town or district; also (without the and with capital initials) as the name of an imaginary place in a remote area.
One suggestion is that the term is derived from the ‘geelorious town o' Whoop-Up’ in E. L. Wheeler's Deadwood Dick on Deck (1878), where ‘Whoop-Up’ is the name of a back-country American goldmining town.
1926‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians 23 Woop Woop, a humorous method of alluding to the country districts used most frequently in New South Wales. 1928A. Wright Good Recovery 34 They're chasin' Murraba out along the Woop Woop Road, or somewhere. 1930Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Jan. 28/2 ‘Who on earth is she?’ gasped the visitor from Woop-Woop. 1958J. Lindsay Life Rarely Tells 213 Next morning he'd rush away. ‘Off to the Woop-woop!’ Somewhere in the backblocks that meant. 1960N. Hilliard Maori Girl iii. i. 174 ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘Up in the wilds—the woop-woops, Taranaki.’ 1963Truth (Wellington, N.Z.) 8 Oct., A job was found right out in the wop-wops. 1970N.Z. Listener 21 Dec. 51/2 While you're out in the woop-woops next time, spare a thought for the local farmer. 1975Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 26 Mar. 12/6 Police feared they would be transferred to ‘Woop Woop’.
b. An inhabitant of such a place; a country bumpkin. rare.
1936M. Franklin All that Swagger 472 Adrienne was no blob or woop-woop. 1950Coast to Coast 1949–50 201 I'll make a fair dinkum woop-woop out of you in no time. |