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  What it means

  Literally “where dogs bark with their butts.” A colorful (and slightly crude) way to describe a place that is extremely remote, backward, or in the middle of nowhere. “In the boonies / the sticks.”

  Vocabulary

  • dupa — butt/ass (vulgar)
  • szczekać — to bark

  Grammar note

  Instrumental plural 'dupami'.

  Cultural context

  A quintessential piece of Polish regional slang.

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