boondocks

boondocks

1. An uninhabitable area, often in the jungle. "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning "mountain," and originated as US military slang. You don't know what wild animals you'll meet out in the boondocks.
2. A very distant or remote location, often one that lacks modern amenities. That place is all the way out in the boondocks—it'll take us hours to get there. Good luck getting a cell signal out here in the boondocks.

in the boondocks

In a very distant or remote location, often one that lacks modern amenities. That place is all the way out in the boondocks—it'll take us hours to get there. Good luck getting a cell signal out here in the boondocks.
See also: boondocks
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*in the boondocks

 and *in the boonies
in a rural area; far away from a city or population. (*Typically: be ~; camp ~; live ~; stay ~.) Perry lives out in the boonies with his parents.
See also: boondocks
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • brassic lint
  • iron poof
  • in the boondocks
  • blimp
  • blimp out
  • gun
  • guns
  • (totally) tubular
  • autem mort
  • flash on
References in periodicals archive
Two Specific guiding questions within this study were: how does the language of the Boondocks make African American male experiences with spirituality significant or not and in what ways, and second, what is the ideological effect of examining the Boondocks animated series through the lens of critical spirituality?
Caption: Meanwhile, an isolated park out in the boondocks will get a new Nature Center, plunked down in the middle of formerly pristine woods.
Boondocks Patio and Grill, located in Downtown Scottsdale is the home of many live music acts and athletes and this Super Bowl week will be no exception.
It's not even "South Park'' or "The Boondocks,'' the controversy-courting series about two black boys in a white suburb that Jones once helped produce.
Havens next turns his attention to series that are more contemporary including Grey's Anatomy, That's So Raven, Everybody Hates Chris, The Boondocks, and Chappelle's Show.
Every position that Romney will take in the coming campaign, especially in so close an election as is likely, will certainly be an insincere marketing strategy that holds us poor dupes from the boondocks in barely hidden cynical contempt.
The Boondocks grapples with tensions between black and white in the United States and the respective roles of each group in contemporary U.S.
Way out in the boondocks and wondering where that printout of your B&B is?
In "Shine2.0: Aaron McGruder's Huey Freeman as Contemporary Folk Hero," Howard Rambsy II reads Huey Freeman of McGruder's popular cartoon The Boondocks as an "up- to-date underground black hero" (9).
NORFOLK was just getting over its reputation as an English version of American boondocks movie Deliverance when the Tories had to go and ruin it.
But most impact wrenches don't have enough juice to do the job, especially in the boondocks.
Little Big Town, whose breakthrough single, "Boondocks", is about, well, growing up in the boondocks and being damn proud of it.
"We got good starts and went left, but the breeze freshened from the right and we were stuck in the boondocks. Once you get buried, that's it, and with one drop, there's no way back," he said.