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backwoodsman

 noun
     
Related topics: Parliaments
back‧woods‧man plural backwoodsmen [countable]
1 someone who lives in the backwoods
2 British EnglishPGP a member of a political party or parliament, especially the House of Lords, who is not very active politically and only sometimes votes, attends meetings etc
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