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woop woop

nounInformal

A Australian English slang term. Browse all Australian slang.

What it means

  1. An imaginary place standing for anywhere remote and inconvenient. Out in woop woop means a very long way from anything.

In use

  • The venue's out in woop woop, we'll need a car.

  • They've moved to woop woop, takes three hours to get there.

Where it comes from

A jocular placeholder name in the pattern of Australian place names, several of which genuinely do reduplicate — Wagga Wagga, Woy Woy. The joke works because it sounds entirely plausible.

Other forms

Similar terms:
the back of Bourke, beyond the black stump