boondocks

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Etymology [edit]

1910s, Tagalog bundok (mountain), adopted by American troops, reinforced or re-adopted during World War II.[1]

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boondocks (plural only)

  1. A very rural location or town.
    We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere.

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  1. ^ boondocks” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).