Meaning

(slang, US, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted..

Definitions by Sense

1. (slang, US, usually derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and Northeast, especially one whose beliefs are seen as unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.
2. (by extension, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin
3. (historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
4. (historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
5. (UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries, religious slur) A Roman Catholic.

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Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check

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• rednecks

Synonyms for red neck

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