boondocks n.
(US) rough country, jungle, an isolated or wild region; plus fig. use as an isolated unappealing place; thus boondocker, one who comes from such a place.
A Flying Tiger’s Diary (1984) 58: His engine cut out [...] and he went off into the boondocks and tore off his landing gear. | 18 Dec. in||
(con. 1943) Big War 123: That’s the trouble with being stuck down in the boondocks. [Ibid.] 183: Well, old boondocker [...] I guess you know that’s the end of the carnival. | ||
Restless Men 124: He stared along the [...] bank of black dust and dried mud and sunwarmed buffalo turds. ‘Godforsaken boondocks — what else’d bother to live here?’. | ||
Carlito’s Way 21: His uncle kept him in the boondocks. | ||
Wiseguy (2001) 115: He lived in the boondocks of Jersey. | ||
Dolores Claiborne 53: Out here in the boondocks about the most int’restin thing a person can do is die sudden. | ||
Big Ask 68: If this woman was mine, I’d be superglued to her, not chasing turnstile attendants in the boondocks. | ||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 416: [S]ome fellow who distills potatoes in the Subcarpathian boondocks. |