boondock

Meanings

To camp in a dry brushy location.
To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle in a remote location, without connections to water, power, or sewer services.
To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away.

1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok ("mountain"), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.

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