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Noun: boonies  boo-neez
Usage: N. Amer, informal
  1. A remote and undeveloped area
    "They built a cabin in the boonies, far from civilization";
    - backwoods, back country, boondocks [N. Amer, informal], hinterland, back of Bourke [Austral, informal], wop-wops [NZ, informal], the sticks [informal], Woop Woop [Austral, informal]

Type of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Boonies