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plural noun
- a barren area in which soft rock strata are eroded into varied, fantastic forms.
pl n
- any deeply eroded barren area
“arid, highly eroded regions of the western U.S.,” 1852, from bad + land (n.). Applied to urban districts of crime and vice since 1892 (originally with reference to Chicago).
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