hick

Example Sentences

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You can be a Harvard hick, a Palm Beach hick.

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

I could tell by her face, her tone, that I had somehow missed something important in what she’d said, and had again revealed myself as the small-town hick I often felt like around her.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth