What is "okie"

Usage examples of "okie".

Elvis married another Okie - actually, an Arkie - named Sheila White, and they started to have kids.

The song expressed the frustrated sentiments of more than a million Okies, Arkies and hillbillies who made a long trek to the Golden State and found it was just another hard dollar.

Hevians spoke the mixture of English, Interlingua and Russian which was the beche-de-mer of deep space, learned long ago from the Okies, none of the children did-but it was also a blessing, since it precluded any extensive interrogation of Web and Estelle about their own world, culture and background.

As for the second and third generations, they knew of the Okie days only as history, and looked upon the hulk of the flying city that had brought their parents to New Earth as a fantastically clumsy and outmoded monster, much as the pilot of an ancient atmospheric liner might have regarded a still more ancient quinquireme in a museum.

But the only marks that sullied the smooth whiteness were the pockmarks where Okie had wasted the vid camera.

But to have had the Hevians turn over complete custody of their women to the Okies, without so much as a conference, at first contact—after Hazleton had proposed using any possible women as bindlestiff-bait—a proposal advanced before it had been established that there even was such a place as He— Well, that was Hazelton’s own psi-gift—not true clairvoy ance, but an ability to pluck workable plans out of logically insufficient data.

Even so, and even though Mayor Amalfi, the principal hero and leading cultural morphologist of CITIES IN FLIGHT, believes that the Okies have been completely defeated [ECH, 421-422], I can see no reason to believe that the restoration of the Ancien Regime in 3976 would have been any more permanent than it was in 1815.

There were dropouts all along the way: hillbillies, Okies, Arkies -- they're all the same people.

No one except Amalfi even appeared to take any interest in what might have happened to the whole of Okie society back in the home lens, the Milky Way galaxy of which the two Magellanics were satellites.

What good does it do you to be an Okie if you're going to mix in on some petty border feud?

About thirty minutes after our brush with the Okies we pulled into an all-night diner on the Tonopah highway, on the kirts of a mean/scag ghetto called North Las Vegas.

A haze gradually began to define the area of the Okie encampment: a planetary nebula of gas molecules, dust, and condensations of metal and water vapor.

The last time I heard of Eudy he was working for the Probation Department in San Jose and raising intellectual Okies with his wife, Cappie who cared not one wit for Nietzsche or Lefty Frizel.

Now there were only a few of the swamp vehicles-inexplicably called swan boats-to be seen at the end of each day, when Chris was released from school, and these were mostly small craft whose owners were engaged in dickering with individual Okies for off-planet curios to give to their ladies.