Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person from the backwoods or a remote mountain area.
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- noun Someone who is from the
hills ; especially from arural area, with a connotation of a lack ofrefinement orsophistication . - noun A white person from the rural southern part of the United States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This vapid, vacuous, uneducated, Alaska hillbilly is an international laughingstock.
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In a party that worships the likes of Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, and speaks with the voices of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, this hillbilly is actually part of the “mainstream”.
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I also think you are right to distinguish between redneck and what I call hillbilly culture in southern whites.
Black Rednecks or Black Africans? Steve Sailer 2005
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I also think you are right to distinguish between redneck and what I call hillbilly culture in southern whites.
Archive 2005-05-15 Steve Sailer 2005
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They were what they call hillbilly music, sometimes, or dance music?
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Stuart began offering what he called hillbilly rock,'' an amalgam of energized honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll that he rode well into the '90s.
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I am from East Tennessee originally and "hillbilly" is okay to use.
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The Political Correctness Congress has just issued an edict that henceforth the term hillbilly is banned, to be replaced by Appalachian American. "
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April 15th, 2010 2: 59 pm ET to djb: 'white trash hillbilly' is actually a racial slur.
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That wild Alaska hillbilly is jibbering on good lord.
vmarinelli commented on the word hillbilly
The much-maligned, fiercely proud mountain people of Appalachia.
February 6, 2007