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boondockses

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boon⋅docks

[boon-doks]
–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.)


2. back country, backwoods, provinces; boonies, sticks.
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