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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hick
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Just a hick town, I guess.
▪ My companions start talking in Arabic again and I have the depressing sense of being a hick tourist fallen among real travellers.
▪ The whole hick aspect and the nasty women would pass into nothingness as they had passed into silence.
▪ Though he found it convenient to pretend otherwise, the man was no hick care-taker.
▪ You were quite good, playing up to the hicks.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
hick

hick \hick\ n. A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture; a hayseed.

Syn: yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon.

hick

hick \hick\ adj.

  1. rural. Opposite of urban.

  2. characteristic of rural people, especially those not knowledgeable about matters outside their locality; as, hick ideas; a hick town.

    Syn: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hick

late 14c. as a pet form of masc. proper name Richard. Meaning "awkward provincial person" was established by 1700 (see rube); earlier it was the characteristic name of a hosteler, hackneyman, etc. (late 14c.), perhaps via alliteration. The adjective is recorded by 1914.A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't be. [attributed to U.S. humorist Robert Quillen (1887-1948)]

Wiktionary
hick

Etymology 1 n. (context pejorative English) An awkward, naive, clumsy and/or rude country person. Etymology 2

vb. to hiccup

WordNet
hick

adj. awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys"; "rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: bumpkinly, rustic, unsophisticated]

hick

n. not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon]

Wikipedia
Hick

Hick may refer to:

Hick (film)

Hick is a 2011 comedy-drama film directed by Derick Martini, based on the novel of the same name by Andrea Portes that draws on non-fictional elements. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Eddie Redmayne, Ray McKinnon, Rory Culkin, Juliette Lewis, Blake Lively, and Alec Baldwin. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2011. It had a limited theatrical release on May 11 and is distributed by Phase 4 Films.

Usage examples of "hick".

Thanks to the journalists who were onto Bill Hicks first: Len Belzer, Michael Barnes, Jack Boulware, Bill Brownstein, Lawrence Christon, Michael Corcoran, Bob Daily, Frank DiGiacomo, Robert Faires, Allan Johnson, Gerald Nachman, Mike Sager, Edith Sorenson, Michael Spies, Ernest Tucker, and Rick Vanderknyff.

Isaac Hicks is announcing that he gave thousands in cash to previous Dawkins campaigns.

The kind hick tourists bought, with jazzy headlines like HARRY SMITH HITS HOLLYWOOD, GIRLS TAKE TO THE HILLS!

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Unnoted in his edge position, Sald gaped around like the hick country boy he was.

Hicks man said something to Hal Goode about the stretch of road between Union and Drake Eye Springs being narrow and rough as a washboard, I thought Old Man Hawk would explode!

I started barnstorming the hick towns, putting on my act in high school gymnasiums and farm auctions and anyplace else that would have me.

They were all speaking English, as a courtesy to the British officers present, who included a Captain of Horse named Billman, Colonel Sir Peter Hicks, and a Lieutenant Dundas, a young Scottish officer in charge of an ordnance survey party.

After a while Dork returned to the subject of porno pay, and porno percentages, until Hick confirmed the arrival of the tape of the test-fuck of Charisma Trixxx.

Hick Scorner immediately brings that redoubtable gentleman upon the stage, possibly slightly the worse for liquor, seeing that his first words are those of one on a ship at sea.

At this precise instant, however, old Pity, who has remained unnoticed, and who is unwarned by the fate of Hick Scorner, pushes forward with an idea of intervention.

As Hick Scorner never returns, the double conversion brings the play to a close.

Hick Scorner were shackled together in Newgate without money to pay for an upper room, how brazen-faced his lies were, how near he was to hanging, how ingenious were his excuses, and many other facts besides.

Hicks, and her little daughter nine years of age, were executed on the scaffold at Huntingdon in 1716, for the suppositious offences of raising storms and selling their souls to the devil.

John Hick, in an enlightening discussion of the problem of theodicy, has used this famous phrase of Keats to clarify the agonizing issue posed by the existence of evil in a world supposedly created by a God of love.