hick
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8.8
- adjective
- /hɪk/
- Offensive
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paleto
- You just don't expect to find that in a hick town like this one.
- hick town
Examples
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What's a man like you doing in this hick town anyway?
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I guess it doesn't really matter, just a hick town.
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It's sort of a hick town.
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We're way less of a hick town.
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I'll stick with early decision and my hick town in rural America.
Blog text (1) -
So how'd you end up in this hick town?
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Is this two-bit hick island important to you?
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This isn't about some hick town with caveman mentalities.
Blog text (26) -
What, you’re going to go back to that hick town, run the projector, and marry the doctor’s daughter?
Fiction book (2001) -
Many people believe that life in a hick town moves at a slower pace compared to big cities.
Synonyms
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5.2
Having a simple, rough style like the countryside
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4.7
A person who has little experience of the world and seems naive
Showing simple, awkward country manners or dress
Having the manners and clothes of a person from the countryside
Like a place or person from a small town that seems old-fashioned
How Unsophisticated
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hick may come from an old nickname Hick (a short form of Richard) that people used for simple country folk. So when we call a place or style hick, we mean it feels 'plain' or unsophisticated, like something from the countryside.