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redneck

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noun/ˈɹɛdnɛk/
  1. 1

    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.USderogatoryethnic

  2. 2

    yokel, hick, country bumpkinbroadlyderogatory

    • Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check
  3. 3

    Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.UShistoricalslang

  4. 4

    A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.UShistoricalslang

  5. 5

    A Roman Catholic.UKarchaicslur

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