back o' Bourke
advEtymology From the town of Bourke in north-western New South Wales. By supposition, even further west and north than Bourke.
- Mated in the Wild took the audience back o’ Bourke — to Central Australia to be exact.1979, Eric Reade, History and Heartburn: The Saga of Australian Film, 1896-1978, page 28:
- Gilchrist has a head that would have passed unnoticed Back o′Bourke where they played cricket using termite mounds as stumps.2002, Garrie Hutchinson, Gilly the Great: The Best Australian Sports Writing, 2002, page 13:
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- “We're getting Back o′ Bourke, sport, a bit of a ways from the bitumen,” Ian notes, huffing a bit.2009, Chinle Miller, Desert Rats: Adventures in the American Outback, page 110: