hick

Example Sentences

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But I was a hick from the north of England.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

To find out how the other India lived, JS spent a few days in a dusty hick town in central India.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

They’d all gone to art schools — Cooper Union and Cranbrook and Cleveland Institute of Art and Pratt and Parsons — and thought I was this hick.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2022

Bird was “the hick from French Lick,” the aw-shucks guy from a small town in Indiana who often said he couldn’t run or jump.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2022

We could do without any more news coverage of the “big-time reporter comes to hick town” genre.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson