boondocks

Example Sentences

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Suddenly not among the moneyed class, she hustled herself through the redbrick boondocks of the University of Vermont.

From The Verge

They shot the film in Kentucky, deep in the boondocks at the height of summer.

From The Guardian

She has written about how outsiders view residents: “We’re rednecks and hayseeds from the hinterlands, the backcountry, the backwoods, and the boondocks.”

From New York Times

To say something is “out in the tules” is a common expression roughly equivalent to “out in the boondocks.”

From Los Angeles Times

So impenetrable was the landscape that soldiers called remote areas the “boondocks” — a corruption of the Tagalog word bundok — and it entered the American vernacular.

From Salon