hick

Example Sentences

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The first half of the musical traces Jackie’s rise from a hardworking upstate New York hick to a Florida beauty pageant winner who escaped an abusive relationship with her baby daughter.

From Los Angeles Times

But I was a hick from the north of England.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

“That office is not some small backwoods country hick organization that fumbles the ball and doesn’t know how to do its job.”

From Seattle Times

Mr. Lightfoot, who once called himself a “cosmopolitan hick,” had a shyness that could leave people wanting more.

From Washington Post