hick

Example Sentences

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A hick picks a fight with a pope.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

But I was a hick from the north of England.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 11, 2024

To find out how the other India lived, JS spent a few days in a dusty hick town in central India.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

The musical, which finds laughs in a worrisome alliance between a hick and a huckster, features a score by a pair of well-regarded Nashville songwriters: Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2022

Though at times I’d made Ella angry at me, beneath it all, since I had first come to her as a teen-aged hick from Michigan, Ella had never once really wavered from my comer.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey