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boonies
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boonies \ˈbuː.niz\ pluriel
- (Au pluriel) (Familier) Cambrousse, bled, trou perdu.
In that sense it was a reversal of Vietnam, wasn’t it? There the bad things were out in the boonies, and you wanted to keep them from moving in.
— (Tom Clancy, Without Remorse, 1993.)
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