Idioms

in the boondocks

in the boondocks

In a very distant or remote location, often one that lacks modern amenities. "Boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning "mountain," and originated as US military slang. 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. I got tired of living in the boondocks, so I started renting an apartment right in the heart of the city.
See also: boondocks
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*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. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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References in periodicals archive
It was an exposure that made her learn lessons in countryside banking and in really knowing if our government banks have served its clients especially in the boondocks.
Most of the hostages are kept in the boondocks of Basilan and Sulu, both island provinces off the southern island of Mindanao.
It also provides room for one to examine how critical pedagogy and critical spirituality are visible in the Boondocks and when the animated series is viewed as a form of curriculum.
Luke Scott (son of Ridley) directs the story of corporate troubleshooter Lee (Kate Mara) who's dispatched by a shady company to a secret laboratory hidden in the boondocks. She's there to check the progress of the firm's latest project, a lab-grown "hybrid biological organism".
If a Wren was out on a job somewhere out in the boondocks and took sick, they would fly me out in a Bell helicopter to pick her up and bring her back.
But most impact wrenches don't have enough juice to do the job, especially in the boondocks.
In THE BOONDOCKS PAST AND PRESENT: ALL THE RAGE (Three Rivers Press, $21.95), the incomparable Aaron McGruder unleashes his supercharged sense of humor on readers with never-before-released Boondocks comic strips.
No wonder, then, that demographers are calling the 'oos "the decade of the exurb," with the fastest population growth happening way out in the boondocks, where a person might still drive and talk on his cell phone--assuming he can get a signal.
Having said that, the book makes one itch to get out in the boondocks and rediscover the old boom-and-bust towns, diamond frauds, and Native American battle sites.
Chasing Dreams in the Boondocks is the memoir of one man's quest to bring his childhood dream to life--the dream of building a golf course by hand the old fashioned way.
In one chapter Caesar describes the difficulty of teaching critical theory in the boondocks, as illustrated by his experience at Clarion.
"They're of the mind that we're out here in the boondocks and therefore they can do what they please," he said.
The creation of 27-year-old cartoonist Aaron McGruder, Huey Freeman appears daily in The Boondocks, a comic strip featured in 250 of America's largest newspapers, including the Washington Post, Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and Philadelphia Inquirer.
Instead of the studied silence of many comic strips, the young African-American characters in The Boondocks have tackled the war in Afghanistan.
Kathie Kerr, director of communications of Universal Press Syndicate, one of the eight major comic strip industry leaders, says that her company was interested in The Boondocks because "the editors were blown away by the artwork." She also believes that in addition to the Japanese "anime" style in which the strip is drawn, "it brought a sense of diversity to the comic pages, and its consistent humor appeals to a younger audience that newspapers want."
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