Definition of a hillbilly

hillbilly    

noun

• an uncultured person who lives in a rural area.

  All farmers are hillbillies.

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

  Last edited on Oct 01 2001. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.

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Other terms relating to 'rural dweller':
hick	Definitions include: a person from a rural area.
billy	Definitions include: abbreviated form of hillbilly.
cooter	Definitions include: female genitalia.
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.
bumpkin	Definitions include: an unsophisticated person from a rural area.
trailer trash	Definitions include: From the stereotype that poor people (especially in the Midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes.
bamma	Definitions include: a person from a rural area; uncool person.
white trash	Definitions include: poor, uneducated Caucasians.
chillbilly	Definitions include: a hillbilly from colder climes, such as Alaska.
good old boy	Definitions include: a certain type of person living in the rural/southern United States; "hick"; "redneck".
Whiskey Tango	Definitions include: phonetic abbreviation for white trash.
good ol' boy	Definitions include: see good old boy.
hayseed	Definitions include: a person from a rural area; "bumpkin".
redneck	Definitions include: a person from a rural area.
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Other terms relating to 'hillbilly':
hillbilly heroin	Definitions include: the narcotic drug oxycodone.
hillbilly-hoodrat	Definitions include: a person who has characteristics of both a hillbilly and a hood rat.

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