Definitions
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- noun A
brushy rural area. - verb To
camp in a dry brushy location. - verb To stay in a
recreational vehicle in aremote location, withoutconnections to water, power, orsewer services.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The twirling round the chandelier thing wasn't original in boondock saints either cause for the people that actually do remember that movie they laugh afterwards cause it only happens in spy movies so is not the 'boondock' thing and seriously why should a move be held to one movie?!
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Shad everyone, calm down, for today we are at "full fuckin 'boondock."
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Tree Spiker Mike takes you into the boondock byroads of some of the toughest forest fights our emerging green nation has won.
Harvey Wasserman: Roselle and St. Clair: Two from the Green Hard Core 2010
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Graham boondock saints sucked and troy duffy is a hack I never understood the fascination people have with this movie. overnight the documentary on the production and duffy is top notch though
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Though it is the freshest in my mind as I can't think of where I saw it before that. .but I KNOW I saw it before I ever saw the boondock saints.
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I recently found Boondock Saints and became in Troy Duffy's words "another drooling boondock saints fan".
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Drag a beer through Southie and get all the extras you want. lotus_eater its bad, cliche filmmaking. thats it. escapism entertainment is one thing, a bad film is something else. boondock saints is a bad film. the reason people hate it is because too many people love it for no good reason, especially when there are a lot of struggling filmmakers with a voice making good films that do not get credit. mike
Boondock Saints 2 is Looking For Toronto-based Extras | /Film 2008
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While we're at it - let's move the capitol out of that boondock of a marsh and make it accessible to the WHOLE state's citizenry.
Byron Williams: California Must Change the Way it Does Business 2009
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alexcooper1 commented on the word boondock
No, no, no. I am certain that "boondock" has its origins in the Pilipino word "bundok." Some etymology: the Philippines was conquered and then colonized by the United States at the turn of the 20th century. One can easily imagine American troops asking the natives where the rebels they were pursuing had fled. "There," they would say, "they fled to this bundok or that bundok." Bundok (pronounced only with short vowel sounds and with accent on the second syllable) is the Pilipino word for mountain. That's how it made its way into American English.
July 20, 2012
bilby commented on the word boondock
No no no what? This page doesn't offer an etymology. Etymological theories are notoriously difficult to 'prove' in many cases. Your position on this word is plausible and not without support. Online Etymology Dictionary says:
"1910s, from Tagalog bundok 'mountain.' Adopted by occupying American soldiers in the Philippines for 'remote and wild place.' Reinforced or re-adopted during World War II. Hence, also boondockers 'shoes suited for rough terrain,' originally (1944) U.S. services slang word for field boots."
July 20, 2012