boondock

Origin: 1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from , 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. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).