boonies
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of boonies
First recorded in 1950–55; boon(docks), -ie
Example Sentences
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Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson evoke the small-bore unraveling of new parenthood in the boonies, with Lawrence in particular throwing her whole body into a creeping alienation from one’s spouse and oneself.
From Los Angeles Times
At the first group dinner, she sits meekly in the boonies of the banquet room alongside a couple dozen of Moretti’s acolytes waiting for the head table to pass down a shared bread roll for everyone to take a bite.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Fowler: “She made it comfortable to grow as a human. I was from the boonies of Arkansas, trying to figure out who I was in terms of coming out as gay, pursuing a PhD from a family where I was already the first generation of college students, and this was a person who was so secure in who she was and kind and generous.”
From Los Angeles Times
We’re in the boonies of 18th-century Austria, a land of tall, lonely forests and craggy hillsides.
From New York Times
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