Hillbilly

Quick meaning: Hillbilly is a noun meaning (ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

Meaning

(ethnic slur) A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.

More Meanings

1. To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
2. To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
3. To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.
4. (often derogatory) Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.

Example Sentences

Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.

The Warner Bros. cartoons, after having hillbillied themselves nearly to death during the 1930s, did not return to the trend during the late 1940s.

I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them.

Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.

Word Forms

• hillbillies
• hillbillying
• hillbillied

Synonyms for hillbilly

Depending on context, synonyms include hick, bogger, bogtrotter, bucolic, bydlo, culchie.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bushwhacker, folk, country, nonclassical, western, redneck.

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