hillbillying

Verb

hillbilly (third-person singular simple present hillbillies, present participle hillbillying, simple past and past participle hillbillied)

1. To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
   • Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.1991, The Commonwealth Review - Volume 3, page 189
2. To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
   • 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.2001, The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 32, page 1540
3. To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.

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