hick

Example Sentences

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A hick picks a fight with a pope.

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

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

Cornelius is explaining to his naïve fellow employee, Barnaby, that beyond “this hick town” where they labor so joylessly is “a slick town.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2019

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

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson