city slicker

Example Sentences

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Mostly that has meant pretending to be a Real American by riding horses, going hunting or driving around in a pick-up to prove they aren’t some effete city slicker.

From Salon • Nov. 23, 2025

I’m gay, and I’m Black, and I’m a city slicker with no children.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2022

A city slicker finds romance with a hunky ranch hand in the LGBTQ-themed TV movie “Dashing in December.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

The country boy in me dreamed of becoming a city slicker.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2019

Being a city slicker, he’d no doubt turn tail and beat it back to Terre Haute when we started bleeding out the first hog.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck