Definitions For Boondock

Verb

{{en-verb}} (US) To camp in a dry brushy location. {{rfex, en}} (US) To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle in a remote location, without connections to water, power, or sewer services. : Traveling in the American southwest, we avoid people by boondocking in the desert. (tiddlywinks) To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away.

Synonyms

dry camp

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 露營, 露营, tr=lùyíng {{qualifier, no equivalent exists; lit. "to camp"}} Finnish: leiriytyä erämaassa Chinese: : Mandarin: 開露營車}}, 开露营车 (kāi lùyíngchē) {{qualifier, no equivalent exists; lit. "to drive a recreational vehicle" Dutch: wildkamperen Finnish: yöpyä erämaassa

Noun

BOONDOCK (plural BOONDOCKs) (always "the boondocks", plural only, in the plural, US) A brushy rural area or location. : We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere. (tiddlywinks) A shot that strikes a squopped wink and sends it flying far away.

Synonyms

See: thesaurus:remote place boonies the sticks backwoods backwater middle of nowhere

Derived terms

boondocker boonies

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 窮鄉僻壤, sc=Hani, 穷乡僻壤, tr=qióngxiāngpìrǎng, sc=Hani Dutch: platteland, n, buiten, m Finnish: erämaa, pensasaro, pusikko, pöpelikkö French: cambrousse, f German: Einöde, f, Pampa, f, Walachei, f, Kartoffelsteppe, f, Hundetürkei, f, vulg. Arsch der Welt, m Japanese: 僻地, tr=へきち, hekichi, sc=Jpan, 奥地 (おくち, okuchi, sc=Jpan) Persian: تورقوزآباد (turquzâbâd) {{qualifier, colloquial}} Romanian: coclauri, p Russian: глушь, f, захолу́стье, n Spanish: barrios lejanos Swedish: vischan, c Tagalog: probinsya Yiddish: העק

Etymology

1910s, {{etyl, tl, en}} bundok, , mountain, adopted by American troops, reinforced or re-adopted during World War II.{{R:Online Etymology Dictionary}}