noun
Meaning 1
A remote, rural area; a place that is removed from civilization such as the boondocks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, derogatory, informal, uncountable
Examples
- She grew up in the sticks and later moved to the city.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: backwoods, boonies, boondocks, hinterland, middle of nowhere, Isolated town, bump in the road, jerkwater, jerk-water, jerkwater town, one-horse town, wide spot in the road, Isolated place, arse end of nowhere, back of beyond, back forty, backcountry, backwater, beyond the black stump, boondock, bumfuck middle of nowhere, bumfuck nowhere, dullsville, edge of the earth, edge of the world, ends of the earth, ends of the world, north forty, off the beaten track, out of the way, sticks, the sticks, Actual places, back o' Bourke, Outer Mongolia, Timbuktu, Tuktoyaktuk, Fictional places, Anytown, BFE, Bumblefuck, Bumfuck, Egypt, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nowhere, Ohio, Buttfuck, East Bumfuck, East Jesus, Hicksville, Nowheresville, Podunk, Squedunk, Whateverville, wop-wops, Woop Woop
Antonyms: none provided