black stump

An undefined point between civilization and wilderness in Australia, as referred to by anybody who speaks or understands strine, who may or may not be an ocker.
Anybody or anything that is said to be out beyond the black stump is definitely in a place that is:
remote,
unserviced by places that deal with regular comestibles such as beer, burgers, or loose women of any description,
hot, dry and drily hot.

The Pom has got himself in a right pickle; he's way out past the black stump.

Only Crocodile Dundee and Abbos can find food out past the black stump.

by verbusaccidentibus August 8, 2010

draw back a stump

A threat that you will cut off someone's fingers, hand, arm etc. unless they stop bugging or annoying you (hopefully not literally). An amputated limb is called a stump, so unless they stop touching you, you'll cut something off and they will draw back a stump...not a hand.

You touch me again and you'll draw back a stump!

by dainjarouz September 29, 2006

draw back a bloody stump

pulling back what should be your intact hand after mistakenly reaching for some item you counted on as belonging to you. Most often a trick in the card game of Euchre. The actual owner of the trick having severed all or part of your hand up to, but not including the elbow. The dismemberment/amputation could occur in any of a variety of gruesome manner-- meat cleaver amputations are quickest and most successful but other more lengthy and painful mutilations might include, but not limited to, chainsaws, electric OR manual meat grinders, strait razors, butcher knives, cinder blocks, sledge hammers, boot heels, barbeque forks etc.

Juan forgot that spades was trump so when he tried to collect the trick with his ace of clubs I ground his hand from his wrist with my Black and Decker belt sander leaving only denuted bone and scraps of soft tissue in its place causing him to draw back a bloody stump.

by The-Hawk July 23, 2009