hick

Example Sentences

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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

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

She sets out not only to bust stereotypes about submissive Japanese-American women but also to rescue hick Kentuckians, intolerant Christians, “tiger moms” and even the dying from the broad brush of caricature.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2019

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