boondocker
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈbuːnˌdɑːkər/
- US
- When hiking in the mountains, make sure to wear your boondockers for better support and protection.
Examples
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Most boondockers have a fairly similar travel agenda, so it's possible our paths may cross over the next year, and if you know my general plans, maybe we can try to get together.
Blog text (14) -
You got six seconds to get on your boondockers and dungarees and turn to.
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The singing Marine has to move fast to keep his boondockers from sinking in and gluing him to the spot.
Fiction book (1995) -
The biggest benefit for a boondocker is that LEDs require hardly any power to use, so you will not have to be so conscious of switching off lights when you may need them.
Blog text (10) -
Now I'll add "boondockers."
Blog text (12) -
The hell of it is that as they march him out in the smelly fatigues and the squelching boondockers, they will call him Sir, and they will treat him with the courtesy appropriate to a ranking officer even though he no longer deserves it.
Fiction book (1995) -
Jeez, it's too bad that there were no saguaro cacti around. One of my friends from high school climbed one of those when the boondocker party we were at was raided by the landowners with scary shotguns and 4x4 trucks. He must not have been scared enough.
Blog text (20) -
Many boondockers enjoy camping in remote areas where they can connect with nature away from city life.
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Her sturdy boondockers kept her feet dry while she trekked through the muddy trails.
Synonyms
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1.2
A person who stays in a tent or cabin for a short time to enjoy nature
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6.5
A man who spends a lot of time doing activities outside like hunting, fishing, or camping
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3.3
A man who enjoys being outside doing things like hiking or fishing
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9.9
A person who lives or works in the wild far from towns
How Sturdy
- US
1
8.8
695
1.0
2
2.7
4
1.4
- US
183
1.3
104
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
boondocker = boondock (semi-transparent) = boondock + er
The form clearly contains boondock + er, but the boot sense is a specialized metonymic extension rather than a fully predictable agentive meaning.
Etymology
Boondocker comes from boondocks, a slang word for a far-away rural place, and boondocks itself comes from the Tagalog word bundok meaning 'mountain'. So a boondocker is either a sturdy outdoor boot or a person who lives or camps out in the 'boondocks', far from towns.