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boon⋅docks

  [boon-doks]
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–noun (used with a plural verb)
1. an uninhabited area with thick natural vegetation, as a backwoods or marsh (usually prec. by the).
2. a remote rural area (usually prec. by the): The company moved to a small town out in the boondocks.
Origin:
1940–45, Americanism; < Tagalog bundok mountain + -s 3 (in locative derivations such as the sticks, the dumps, etc.)

Synonyms:
2. back country, backwoods, provinces; boonies, sticks.
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boon·docks   (bōōn'dŏks')   
pl.n.   Slang

  1. Wild and dense brush; jungle.

  2. Rural country; the backwoods.


[From Tagalog bundok, mountain.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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