badlands'

bad·lands

[bad-landz]
plural noun
a barren area in which soft rock strata are eroded into varied, fantastic forms.

Origin:
1850–55, Americanism; bad1 + land + -s3; translation of French mauvaises terres, perhaps based on expressions in AmerInd languages, alluding to the difficulty in traversing such country

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badlands (ˈbædˌlændz) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
pl n
any deeply eroded barren area

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badlands
"arid, highly eroded regions of the western U.S.," 1852, from bad + land. Applied to urban districts of crime and vice since 1892 (originally with ref. to Chicago).
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