boonies
Example Sentences
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Gauging by the skull flag prominently displayed in Grady’s basement, the boonies of the Pacific Northwest are populated solely by unsocialized, militia-affiliated wild men.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2025
Nam: It was a massive compound way out in the boonies!
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2021
It is Melbourne Park’s version of the boonies.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
In contrast, New York and other older Eastern cities were already overflowing, and courses had to be built in the boonies.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 17, 2020
Near Chu Lai the patrols had been serious, but away from Chu Lai, in the deep boonies, they were dead serious.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
