boondocks \BOON-doks, noun:
1. A remote rural area (usually preceded by “the.”)
2. An uninhabited area with thick natural vegetation, as a backwoods or marsh.
They keep passing him and he remains alone, blotted to the evening by velvet and buckskin-if they do see him his image is shunted immediately out to the boondocks of the brain where it remains in exile with other critters of the night.
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s rainbow