hick
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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
Bird was “the hick from French Lick,” the aw-shucks guy from a small town in Indiana who often said he couldn’t run or jump.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2022
She sets out not only to bust stereotypes about submissive Japanese-American women but also to rescue hick Kentuckians, intolerant Christians, “tiger moms” and even the dying from the broad brush of caricature.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
We could do without any more news coverage of the “big-time reporter comes to hick town” genre.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Hence the term that they applied to themselves, sophisticated hicks.
From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2021
Calling people gullible or hicks doesn’t convert anyone.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 1, 2020
Like most such stories, “Bless This Mess” privileges the country over the town, prizes the hicks above the slickers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
But didn’t you also see me googling “braxton hicks vs. preterm labor” and “baby not moving”? Did you not see my three days of social-media silence, uncommon for a high-frequency user like me?
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
We are playing West Charleston High School and they think they’re coming down here to trounce the hicks.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
