Places & Getting Around · New Zealand slang

The wops

The middle of nowhere; deep countryside. Full version: the wop wops.

"She lives way out in the wops."

"No reception out in the wop wops."

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Origin & notes

NZ and AU independently evolved nearly identical terms.

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