What is the origin and meaning of the term 'gone bamboo'?
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Ed the Jetpacking Headbanger
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"Gone Bamboo" is the slang term to describe day trippers, travelers, and expats who have decided not to return to their lives and homes, but to go native in the tropical locale they are in. http://gonebamboo.blogspot.com/
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Not sure but I first ran across it in a book by Anthony Bourdain called that. It it referring to people that go native, relaxing and chilling out in some tropical island. It's like going native only island style.
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when my only plant, my great bambino, passed away
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If you plant bamboo , and the conditions are favourable, it goes wild, sending out runners that have it coming up a long way from the parent group. (It is a form of grass, after all). So, by applying the analogy, if someone gets out of the confines of their society, they "go bamboo" ie they go wild, uninhibited. It is almost like "go feral".
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Apparently the phrase "gone bamboo" came about when western men, many of them in the military, discovered places like Thailand and eventually ended up never coming back home. It refers to living an idyllic, tequila-drenched life in a naturally bamboo growing region.
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