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folks

nounnounnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//fəʊks//
  • United States//foʊks//
  • United States//foʊlks//

The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

noun

  1. 1

    The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents

    My folks visit us at Christmas.

  2. 2

    People in general; everybody or anybody.

    Lots of folks like to travel during the holidays.

    Wilson: He's right. They endorse Royce, fine, 'the hell else they gonna do? But what they say and don't say from the pulpit the Sunday before the primary we still got a dog in that fight. Carcetti: I do this right, they respect it. Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin'-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.

    ‘Hi, folks,’ Henry said, using inclusive terminology because one of them was female.

  3. 3

    rareThe police.

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of folkplural of folk

noun

  1. 1

    Late 19th and early 20th century migrants to California from Iowa and other parts of the Midwestern United States.

    McPherson's healing ministry, in fact. was at the core of her success, since so many of the Folks had come to Southern California in late middle or old age in the hope of regaining lost health.

Etymology

Coined by California historian Kevin Starr.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).