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up country
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up country
back, back country, back of beyond, back-country, backcountry, backwash, backwater, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, boondock, boondocks, boorish, borderland, brush, bush, bush country, bushveld, churlish, cloddish, clodhopping, clownish, countrified, country-born, country-bred, farmerish, forests, from the sticks, frontier, hayseed, heartland, hick, hicky, hinterland, hobnailed, inland, inlands, inshore, interior, inurbane, loutish, lumpen, lumpish, mediterranean, midland, midlands, outback, outpost, rube, sticks, sylvan, the bush, timbers, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uninhabited region, unpolished, unrefined, virgin, virgin land, virgin territory, waste, wasteland, wild, wild West, wilderness, wilds, woodland, woodlands, woods, yokel, yokelishFor further exploring for "up country" in Webster Dictionary Online