redneck
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈrɛdˌnɛk/
- Slur
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- Thank God we live in this quiet redneck mountain town
- a redneck bar
- call someone a redneck
- a bunch of rednecks
I heard, Oh, you know, some redneck family.
- I heard, Oh, you know, some redneck family.
- What I mean, what I call redneck hobbies, redneck pastimes.
- Treated him like he was a dumb redneck.
- He's calling it a coupe, the longue, which is like a redneck slang term for somebody with a mullet.
- A lot of people, he said, would describe the neighborhood he grew up in as hillbilly, a redneck or white trash or the sticks.
- My perception of Bud Light's brand was that's some cheap, nasty beer that college kids and rednecks drink.
- Spoken as the perfect redneck hippie, really.
- So the mullet redneck and the four by four watch out.
- And they were called racist and red rednecks and bigots and they elected their guy.
- And backyard, backyard redneck J string.
Examples
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A group of three rednecks is downing shots, one after another.
Fiction book (2000) -
We got too many rednecks.
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But when you talk about the rednecks and all these people like, listen, it's just different.
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I felt like a redneck stuck inside a prep school full of sissies.
Fiction book (1998) -
Prominent citizens, most of them, and some local rednecks, that's all I know.
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In the small town, many rednecks gather at the local diner to share stories and enjoy home-cooked meals.
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Despite being called a redneck, he takes pride in his family's farming heritage and hard work.
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At the festival, there were plenty of rednecks dressed in flannel shirts and cowboy hats celebrating the country lifestyle.
Compounds
- Slur
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9.9
Feeling proud to come from the countryside and the working class in the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word redneck comes from the simple image of a worker whose neck turned red from long hours in the sun. That's why redneck came to mean a poor rural White person and can be an offensive label when used to insult their life or values.