redneck
nounattested in dialogue
- //ˈɹɛdnɛk//
A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
noun
- 1
slangA poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
- 2
yokel, hick, country bumpkin
Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
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historicalAny of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
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historicalA member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
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archaicA Roman Catholic.
Etymology
Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.
Forms
- plural
- rednecks
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