Noun: the sticks
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- A remote and undeveloped area
"They moved from the city to a cabin in the sticks";
- backwoods, back country, boondocks [N. Amer, informal], hinterland, back of Bourke [Austral, informal], wop-wops [NZ, informal], Woop Woop [Austral, informal], boonies [N. Amer, informal]
Type of: country, rural area
Encyclopedia: The sticks