Definition of hick
: an unsophisticated provincial person
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Examples of hick in a Sentence
We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks
Recent Examples of hick from the Web
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Hicks ended up at third with his first triple of the season.
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The news portrays anybody who supports Jacob or us as being these hicks. ...
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The governor of Tennessee could not come off as more of a gutless, spineless, hapless, dim-witted hick, by the way.
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A new name came with the move, but young Chuck Heston always thought of himself as a hick kid.
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Surely the organization is shocked to learn the dumb hicks in the hunting public even HAVE computers.
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T hick muscles and veins rippled under his tan, hairless skin, and there was a tense smirk on his face.
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Danes today tend to think of Swedes as uptight metrosexuals; Swedes see their neighbors across the Oresund as jaywalking, pot-smoking anarchists; and both agree that Norwegians are dull, backwoods hicks with an annoying amount of oil wealth.
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How dare those Texas hicks reject the political controls over building that zoning laws represent.
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Origin and Etymology of hick
hick Synonyms
Synonyms
bumpkin, chawbacon, churl, clodhopper, cornball, countryman, hayseed, hillbilly, provincial, rube, rustic, yokelAntonyms
cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, sophisticateRelated Words
boor, clod, clown, gawk, lout, oaf; greenhorn, tenderfoot; peasant, peon; backwoodsman, mountaineerNear Antonyms
slicker, smoothy (or smoothie); metropolitan, suburbanite, urbaniteFirst Known Use of hick
1913
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