creekers

Noun

creeker (plural creekers)

1. (Appalachia, derogatory) A poor rural person.
   • I want, at the outset to differentiate between those Appalachians who grow up in the towns and those from rural areas—the creeks and the hollers… This is a story from rural Appalachia, recently brought to consciousness, and reported by a creeker.2002 June 21, Linda Scott DeRosier, Creeker: A Woman's Journey, Lexington, Kentucky, United States: The University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN
2. (archaic) A Viking.
   • Children of the old Vikings, or "Creekers", they took, in their great need, to the seaward and the estuaries, as other conquered races take to the mountains, and died, like their forefathers, within scent of the salt sea from whence they came.1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 12