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ulu/hulu

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adjective

  1. remote; rural; far from civilization

    2. I pretty much ever only go to one ulu bar for a quiet drink after work. And I'm not going to say where, or my mother will know where to find me.

    — 2009 March 27, Phin Wong. Today (Afternoon Edition), "PHIN-UP BOY". p.45

  2. (of a place) rural; undeveloped; primitive

    3. Ulu, then, remains more than a place. It is a state of being made possible by a combination of remoteness: traveling south, taking a ferry out, and walking over the land bridges from micro-island to island, making Lazarus a veritable paradise.

    — 2022, Rapti Siriwardane-De Zoysa and Bin Salleh. Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings. Brill. : 9789004523340. p.196


noun

  1. (exclusively in place names) upstream; the head of a river

    2. Located within PUB's water reclamation plant at Ulu Pandan, the fully automated demonstration plant will have a capacity of 12,500 cubic meters a day.

    — 2015 September 8. Today, "PUB to build demo plant for testing water reclamation tech". p.36


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