city slicker
Example Sentences
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Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker.
From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025
I’m gay, and I’m Black, and I’m a city slicker with no children.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022
Next to the country bumpkin, the city slicker comes up short.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019
The country boy in me dreamed of becoming a city slicker.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2019
Being a city slicker, he’d no doubt turn tail and beat it back to Terre Haute when we started bleeding out the first hog.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
