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
A couple times a year, some city slicker with impeccable elite-media credentials whispers to me: What do you think of Theo Von?
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
Metal-head friends Wayne and Garth sell their basement cable-access TV show to a city slicker.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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
