Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Wild and dense brush; jungle.
- noun plural Rural country; the backwoods.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.
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- noun A very
rural location ortown .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a remote and undeveloped area
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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3. Abbreviated form of the word boondocks: the most remote part or parts of our country.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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3. Abbreviated form of the word boondocks: the most remote part or parts of our country.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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3. Abbreviated form of the word boondocks: the most remote part or parts of our country.
Surviving Australia Sorrel Wilby 2001
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The ten-minute ride to the boondocks was a small mistake on their part.
Too Many Spies Spoil The Case Archer, Miles 2002
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Whooley and his friends would take their cars racing in the boondocks, which is pretty much everywhere in Wyoming, according to Whooley.
Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories Kim Lamb LVN Staff Writer 2010
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We used to go to bar called the boondocks and drink, dance and shoot pool.
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We used to go to bar called the boondocks and drink, dance and shoot pool.
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We let her have her prom with her girlfriend and her tuxedo and we went to party it up in the "boondocks" not because we wanted her rights violated, but so we could salvage what has turned into a total fiasco.
The Bilerico Project Alex Blaze 2010
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When they became tired of the rat race of city life, they relocated to the "boondocks" to raise their children.
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The Catch: In an effort to obliterate the term "boondocks," the government finally provides rural areas with access to faster Internet (and possibly America Online).
jedelgado commented on the word boondocks
"Boondocks" is a word derived from the Filipino word BUNDOK direct meaning is Mountain. The word gained popular use by American Military men during the Filipino American War in 1898-1900, when they would ask their Filipino guides where the filipino forces where and the answer invariably was "nasa bundok" (in the mountains).
April 1, 2009
stuporglue commented on the word boondocks
Specifically from Tagalog, one of the languages spoken in the Philippines.
June 8, 2009