boondocks
noun
[ ˈbuːndɒks ]
• rough or isolated country.
• "this place is out in the boondocks, you'll never get here by bus"
Similar:
the country,
the countryside,
the provinces,
rural districts,
the backwoods,
the back of beyond,
the wilds,
the hinterland,
a backwater,
the backcountry,
the backland,
hicksville,
the backblocks,
Bandywallop,
the booay,
the backveld,
the platteland,
the middle of nowhere,
the sticks,
the boonies,
the tall timbers,
Woop Woop,
beyond the black stump,
Bullamakanka,
Oodnagalahbi,
Origin:
1940s: boondock from Tagalog bundok ‘mountain’.
