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redneck
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Word definitions for redneck in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"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 ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ 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 ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.