boonies
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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
We’re in the boonies of 18th-century Austria, a land of tall, lonely forests and craggy hillsides.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
I’m not talking about a motel in the boonies of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or a drafty log cabin on a lake in Maine or Minnesota.
From Salon ● May 7, 2024
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
They were still my buddies, at least on one level, but once you leave the boonies, the whole comrade business gets turned around.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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