wayback noun3 •A very remote time or place.Those who live in the “waybacks” should have better roads. — 1955 •(informal, old-fashioned) An area in the body of a car behind the rearseat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.Only, Mercury Villagers do not have waybacks. They have third seats, rear seats, or cargo areas, but not waybacks. — 2005 •An uneducated person from a remote area.The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks and waybacks which the Government imagine them to be. — 1895 formswaybacks