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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
redneck
noun
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▪ A redneck to his roots, Johnson none the less embraced equality between colors and classes as his ticket to historical heaven.
▪ Behind, two redneck rock'n'roll haters with attached security tags sit broadly on the hotel hospitality sofas.
▪ But it was her vocal anti-meat stance that turned the country establishment's down-home snub into redneck outrage.
▪ Dear old redneck Atlanta is a thing of the past, no need to feel foreign here.
▪ Sly had made a big hit with the rednecks of Bullens Creek on his first visit.
▪ They liked the rugged frontier side of it and redneck anti-intellectualism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
redneck

"cracker," attested 1830 in a specialized sense ("This may be ascribed to the Red Necks, a name bestowed upon the Presbyterians in Fayetteville" -- Ann Royall, "Southern Tour I," p.148), from red (adj.1) + neck (n.). According to various theories, red perhaps from anger, or from pellagra, but most likely from mule farmers' outdoors labor in the sun, wearing a shirt and straw hat, with the neck exposed. Compare redshanks, old derogatory name for Scots Highlanders and Celtic Irish (1540s), from their going bare-legged.\n

\nIt turns up again in an American context in 1904, again from Fayetteville, in a list of dialect words, meaning this time "an uncouth countryman" ["Dialect Notes," American Dialect Society, Vol. II, Part VI, 1904], but seems not to have been in widespread use in the U.S. before c.1915. In the meantime, it was used from c.1894 in South Africa (translating Dutch Roinek) as an insulting Boer name for "an Englishman."\n\nAnother common Boer name for an Englishman is "redneck," drawn from the fact that the back of an Englishman's neck is often burnt red by the sun. This does not happen to the Boer, who always wears a broad-brimmed hat.

[James Bryce, "Impressions of South Africa," London, 1899]

Wiktionary
redneck

n. 1 (context slang pejorative English) A poor, rural, white Southern United States person (of either gender); especially, one who is regarded as rowdy, arrogant, egotistical, a braggart, etc. 2 (context slang English) The nickname given to miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. 3 (context UK archaic English) The nickname given to Roman Catholics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

WordNet
redneck

n. a poor white person in the southern United States [syn: cracker]

Wikipedia
Redneck (song)

"Redneck" is the seventh single from the heavy metal band Lamb of God, from their fourth album Sacrament, as well as the first single from the album. A music video was also produced for the song. Vocalist Randy Blythe described the song's meaning in an interview with the magazine Metal Hammer:

"Generally, it's not about any one person in particular. It's about people in the music industry whose egos become needlessly inflated and they show it. It's a general song. It's applicable to anyone in their life. If a fan thinks, 'Oh, well, this guy is a prick,' go ahead and take it and make it yours."

The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance at the Grammy Awards of 2007. It appeared as Brian Posehn's introductory song on the Comedy Central "Roast of Bob Saget" and is featured on the track listing of THQ's Saints Row 2 and SCEA's ATV Offroad Fury 4 video games.

Redneck (comics)

Vincent Stewart, codenamed Redneck and later Skybolt is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe.

Redneck

The term redneck is a derogatory term chiefly used for a rural poor white person of the Southern United States. Its usage is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Georgia and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks), and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality).

By the 1970s, the term had become offensive slang, and its meaning had expanded to mean bigoted, loutish, and opposed to modern ways.

Patrick Huber has emphasized the theme of masculinity in the continued expansion of the term in the 20th century, noting, "The redneck has been stereotyped in the media and popular culture as a poor, dirty, uneducated, and racist Southern white man."

Redneck (disambiguation)

A redneck is a white person of lower socio-economic status in the United States and Canada.

Redneck or rednecks may also refer to:

  • Redneck (comics), a comic character.
  • "Redneck" (song), by Lamb of God.
  • "Rednecks" (song), by Randy Newman.
  • Redneck (film), a film starring Telly Savalas and Mark Lester.
  • Rednek, British dubstep musician.
Redneck (film)

Redneck is a 1973 Italian-British crime-thriller film directed by Silvio Narizzano.

Usage examples of "redneck".

And you prowl the back roads of America in your flying saucer, mutilating cows and performing proctologies on rednecks.

Now how did a redneck like Ranse Cole ever think of hacking into bank and government records?

Redneck Baptists, rich liberals, yellow dog Democrats, middle-class blacks, young fire eaters, Uncle Toms, and bone-dumb bluegums working the bottomland north of town.

Thinking maybe a change of scene would kick-start him, the dust and the broncs with their nuts cinched up, the gimpy rednecked riders.

Trembling, Abby agreed to the terms and departed, expecting those redneck, greaseball, tanktown fuzz to shoot her in the back on her way out.

He was overdoing it so thoroughlythe oldest, rustiest of the trucks, the conspicuous absence of basic courte,sy-that she felt sure he was deliberately caricaturing the city impression of rustic redneck manners, even to his clothing-plaid shirt, clean but faded jeans, and the cap, which he did not remove.

It is the heart of Tangipahoa Parish, a swamp for the reptilian, giacanda redneck, primordial in every way.

What I got out of Adolph is you trying to take over Longview, turn it into some media center for your redneck evangelist.

Whether it was a fairly new Beemer or a forty-year-old Pinto it still shouted redneck to me.

Nothing to do with his name Christina, just meant to protect somebody from another state against getting chewed up by your local rednecks.

No culture of antiintellectual rednecks who have nothing better to do than paint swastikas on temple doors and debate Abortion, prayer in schools, and evolution.

She probably spent a lot of time defending her abilities to the various rednecks and chauvinists she encountered.

I tailed him to some redneck dive and pretended to interview him about Cleo Rio's new album.

When they reached the place where the stumpy redneck had reentered the woods, they could make out his heavy-footed crackles and crunches ahead of them.

People who ought to know better were delighted with his upbeat redneck manners, his muscles, his aloha shirts and new red beret.