Crossword clues for boondocks
boondocks
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
boondocks \boondocks\ n. a remote and undeveloped area; -- sometimes used deprecatingly.
Syn: backwoods, back country, hinterland.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1910s, from Tagalog bundok "mountain." Adopted by occupying American soldiers in the Philippines for "remote and wild place." Reinforced or re-adopted during World War II. Hence, also boondockers "shoes suited for rough terrain," originally (1944) U.S. services slang word for field boots.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of boondock English)
WordNet
n. a remote and undeveloped area [syn: backwoods, back country, hinterland]
Wikipedia
The boondocks is an American expression that stems from the Tagalog word bundok. It originally referred to a remote rural area, but now it is often applied to an out-of-the-way city or town considered backward and unsophisticated.
Boondocks are remote, usually brushy areas. It may also refer to:
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The Boondocks (comic strip), a comic strip by Aaron McGruder
- The Boondocks (TV series), a television series based on the aforementioned comic strip
- "Boondocks" (song), a 2005 song by Little Big Town
- The Boondock Saints, a 1999 action crime drama film
- Boondox, a rapper
- "Down in the Boondocks" (song), a 1965 song by Billy Joe Royal
- Boondock, a settlement on the fictional planet Tertius in the 1973 science fiction novel Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein and subsequent books featuring Lazarus Long
- Boondocks Road, a road in Texas
"Boondocks" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music group Little Big Town. It was released in May 2005 as the first single from their album The Road to Here. It became their first Top 10 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. It was written by Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Roads, Phillip Sweet, Jimi Westbrook and Wayne Kirkpatrick.
Usage examples of "boondocks".
The men were wearing pretty much what anybody would wear on a Saturday night to a hunting lodge in the boondocks: anything from a sports jacket like his own with a light pullover under it to a red-and-black checked flannel shirt or a snowmobiling outfit.
It was a neat arrangement too, her husband out in the boondocks, showing his wedding photographs to the natives around the camp-fire.
She took me way out in the boondocks to meet him, into the airless area.
His wife was embarrassed that he was off again in the boondocks chasing cases.
IRS calls his buddy at FDA and they dig up a couple of cases of typhus out in the boondocks, seize their mailing list send out agents in Georgia Arkansas Mississippi Texas digging up typhus nobody told them to drink the Pee Dee water, a lot of God damn ignorant people out there see a bottle they open it and drink it that brings in the Post Office Department and the FCC, they all know each other.
How the multi-—or is it bulti-—millionaire travels into the boondocks.
Cooper was serving as the capcom at the tracking station in the town of Muchea, out in the kangaroo boondocks of western Australia.
She had the balls to call Chas from wherever it was in the boondocks that she lived and inform him that his own daughter was pregnant.
It struck Crayne that this was somewhat informal a way of convening a conference of this importance, meeting at Addison's chick's pad out here in the boondocks of Ojai.
We were a long way out in the boondocks, and if Vilhelm had wanted to send us off on a wild goose chase, he couldn't have picked a better direction to start us off in.
There are captains doing the hard yards in the boondocks, but, thank bloody Christ, I'm not among them.
Networks trying to push him off the air I get him some exposure in the print media shows these politicians like Teakell the support Ude's got out there in the boondocks thirty, forty million of them Liz they vote.
Indeed, she felt that telltale clamminess on her brow, that damp chill on the nape of her neck, in the small of her back, and on her palms -- an icy moistness that had but one name dreaded from the high proscenium arches of Broadway to the lowest stages of boondocks honkytonks: flop sweat.
Indeed, she felt that telltale clamminess on her brow, that damp chill on the nape of her neck, in the small of her back, and on her palms - an icy moistness that had but one name dreaded from the high proscenium arches of Broadway to the lowest stages of boondocks honkytonks: flop sweat.
The earthquake made a serious mess out of Riverside, Redlands, San Bernardino, and a lot of other places out there in the eastern boondocks, and caused troubles of lesser but not inconsiderable degree as far west as Thousand Oaks and the Simi Valley.