hick
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Old meaning of hick: hayseed, rube, ill-educated person.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
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
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
Though at times I’d made Ella angry at me, beneath it all, since I had first come to her as a teen-aged hick from Michigan, Ella had never once really wavered from my comer.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Calling people gullible or hicks doesn’t convert anyone.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2020
Like most such stories, “Bless This Mess” privileges the country over the town, prizes the hicks above the slickers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
But didn’t you also see me googling “braxton hicks vs. preterm labor” and “baby not moving”? Did you not see my three days of social-media silence, uncommon for a high-frequency user like me?
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
But didn’t you also see me googling “braxton hicks vs. preterm labor” and “baby not moving”? Did you not see my three days of social media silence, uncommon for a high-frequency user like me?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2018
We are playing West Charleston High School and they think they’re coming down here to trounce the hicks.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
