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redneck
[ red-nek ]
noun
- an uneducated white farm laborer, especially from the South.
- a bigot or reactionary, especially from the rural working class.
adjective
- Also °ù±ð»å-²Ô±ð³¦°ì±ð»å. narrow, prejudiced, or reactionary:
a redneck attitude.
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redneck
/ ˈ°ùÉ›»åËŒ²ÔÉ›°ì /
noun
- (in the southwestern US) a poor uneducated White farm worker
- a person or institution that is extremely reactionary
adjective
- reactionary and bigoted
redneck laws
redneck
- A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative , racist, and a religious fundamentalist ( see fundamentalism ). This term is generally considered offensive. It originated in reference to agricultural workers, alluding to how the back of a person's neck will be burned by the sun if he works long hours in the fields.
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Example Sentences
“Yes, I’m a cowboy, redneck, right-wing conservative, Republican, all of that,†he said.
There was a breakdown with a character called Hurley, and he was listed as something along the lines of a 50-year-old redneck.
Michael Trotter Jr. told me that “when you have artists standing onstage yelling about redneck culture, you know they’re not talking to you.â€
Harvesting road kill and dumping it in Central Park as a prank, he said, might have been “a little bit of the redneck in me.â€
A self-described “educated redneck,†Luke was one of 11 Tennesseans with widely divergent views on gun rights selected by the project to discuss potential recommendations to reduce gun violence.
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