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boonies
noun
a remote rural area US, 1956
An abbreviation of BOONDOCKS.- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 5, 1968
- Life in the boonies: SF’s Jim Schoettler, now teaching first graders in Oroville, wrote “love and peace” on his chalkboard–as a writing exercise for his pupils–and was promptly ordered to remove the phrase by a superior. — San Francisco Chronicle, 10 February 1969
- In the boonies the whole time? — Ronald J. Glasser, 365 Days, p. 130, 1971
- “Anything more than six blocks from Hollywood and Vine is to you the boonies,” Pachoulo said. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 168, 1988
- The place was deep in the boonies, but after a few wrong turns on backcountry roads, we came to a tiny, run-down shack perched on stilts over a steep hillside. — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 37, 1993
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