ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ noun plural but singular or plural in construction
Usage: often attributive
1. : the wooded or outlying and only partly cleared areas on the frontier or in the backcountry
the farmers who lived in the backwoods and wrestled to clear the land — Amer Guide Series: Ind.
2. : a rural area that is provincial or backward in culture or remote from the main centers of civilization
a backwoods newspaper
the idiom of the East Texas backwoods — G.S.Perry