Definition of a hick

hick    

noun

• a person from a rural area.

  Missouri is full of hicks.

  • See more words with the same meaning: rural dweller.

  Last edited on Oct 01 2001. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 01 2001.

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Other terms relating to 'rural dweller':
yokel	Definitions include: a person from a rural area; "hick".
slack-jawed	Definitions include: in the manner of a slack-jaw.
good ol' boy	Definitions include: see good old boy.
bamma	Definitions include: a person from a rural area; uncool person.
grit	Definitions include: cigarette.
chillbilly	Definitions include: a hillbilly from colder climes, such as Alaska.
slack-jaw	Definitions include: a moron or lazy person, typically residing in a rural area; "bumpkin".
Whiskey Tango	Definitions include: phonetic abbreviation for white trash.
white trash	Definitions include: poor, uneducated Caucasians.
hillbilly	Definitions include: an uncultured person who lives in a rural area.
bushpig	Definitions include: an unattractive person from the Bush, i.e. the country-side of Australia.
gritter	Definitions include: a person who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety.
hayseed	Definitions include: a person from a rural area; "bumpkin".
cooter	Definitions include: female genitalia.
billy	Definitions include: abbreviated form of hillbilly.
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