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  • proper noun Australia, informal An extremely remote area, the “middle of nowhere”.

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Examples

  • Melt - The plot sounds like it could be some god awful Welcome to Woop Woop scenario all over again, which is a frightening prospect.

    The Australian Films of 2010 Glenn Dunks 2010

  • Welcome to Woop Woop (Stephan Elliot, 1997) ecr. l'inf.

    dbqp: visualizing poetics Geof Huth 2010

  • He would not have encountered the names Woop Woop or Bullamakanka, as they are fictitious names for remote places, parodies of Aboriginal names, as Waikikamukau

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4 1984

  • The use of the music from The Wizard Of Oz also reminds me of the way Stephen Elliott used the music from The Sound Of Music for Welcome To Woop Woop — one of the great undiscovered Australian films of the late 1990’s featuring Rachel Griffiths.

    Confessions Of A Cinema Junkie: Glorious Self-Indulgence And The Return Of Grandeur 2008

  • Subsequently he has directed Welcome to Woop Woop starring Rod Taylor,

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2008

  • Welcome to Woop Woop), cross-dressers on the rampage (The Adventures of Priscilla,

    unknown title 2009

  • Welcome to Woop Woop) that scared its studio so completely that it languished for years in a mutilated condition before emerging as a cult phenomenon?

    unknown title 2009

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