way back

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way back (not comparable)

1. long ago
2. far into the past

   As friends, we go way back: we met in primary school.

• (long ago): of old, yore; see also Thesaurus:long ago

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way back (uncountable)

1. (informal) The part farthest in the back, as of a passenger vehicle.
   • 2015 March 10, Diane C. Mullen, Tagged, Charlesbridge Publishing, →ISBN, page 49:

     Mom swerves the church's turd-brown minivan into an open space. Departure area. The little kids are in the back seat. They ramble on about the airport. Patrick sits in the way back.

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