noun
boondocks
BOON-dahks/ˈbuːndɑːks/
A remote rural area far from towns or cities.
A rough road winds toward an isolated house in the boondocks.
Etymology
Tagalog bundok means mountain. American soldiers in the Philippines adopted it for a remote, wild place, broadening the mountainous image into the sense of countryside far from towns.
In context
getting to people out in the boondocks you know
More examples
- He complains that the distant station is in the boondocks.
- We lose phone service on the drive through the boondocks.
- She enjoys living in the boondocks far from city noise.
Forms
boondocks
Similar words
- backcountry
- Backcountry means remote, undeveloped country; boondocks is an informal, sometimes dismissive term.
- wilderness
- Wilderness is largely undeveloped land; the boondocks can include inhabited rural places far from cities.