boondock

1910s, Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by American troops, reinforced or re-adopted during World War II.[1]

boondock (plural boondocks)

1. (chiefly in the plural, US) A brushy rural area or location.

   We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere.

• See: Thesaurus:remote place
• boonies
• the sticks
• backwoods
• backwater
• middle of nowhere

• boonies

boondock (third-person singular simple present boondocks, present participle boondocking, simple past and past participle boondocked)

1. (US) To camp in a dry brushy location. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (US) To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle in a remote location, without connections to water, power, or sewer services.

   Traveling in the American southwest, we avoid people by boondocking in the desert.

• dry camp