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Redneck

//ˈɹɛdnɛk// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur, usually
  2. 2
    a poor White person in the southern United States wordnet
  3. 3
    yokel, hick, country bumpkin broadly, derogatory

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

  4. 4
    Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921. US, historical, slang
  5. 5
    A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859. US, historical, slang
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  1. 6
    A Roman Catholic. UK, archaic, slur

Etymology

Bahuvrīhi compound of red + neck. Compare rooinek. The term originally characterized farmers that had a red neck, caused by sunburn from long hours working in the fields.

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