REDNECK

redneck, cracker

(noun) a poor White person in the southern United States

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

(slang, pejorative) A poor, rural, usually white and male, person from the Southern United States or parts of the Midwest and northeast, especially one who is unsophisticated and backward; sometimes with additional connotations of being bigoted.

(historical, slang, US) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.

(historical, slang, US) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.

(UK, archaic, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

Synonyms

• bogan (Australia), cracker, hick, hillbilly, peckerwood, white trash

Source: Wiktionary



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