redneck
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
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- 7
Definition of redneck
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, usually)A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
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noun
- (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, usually)A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
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(broadly, derogatory)yokel, hick, country bumpkin
“Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check”
- (US, historical, slang)Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
- (US, historical, slang)A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
- (UK, archaic, slur)A Roman Catholic.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.
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