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city slicker

noun as in (offensive) sophisticated city person

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These city slickers will learn to respect the local myths.

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Maybe the most massive quasars are city slickers, forming in hubs of tens or hundreds of other galaxies.

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The city slickers fed up with rising egg prices have had questions for Samuel Dodds.

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To city slickers, they might seem like the perfect places to put renewable energy — sun-swept fields and windy plains degraded by pesticide use and overgrazing, practically crying out for a second economic life.

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Like a vengeful villain in a Western movie, city slicker Trump targeted Cheney in the Wyoming Republican primary.

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