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Jed Clampett

Jed Clampett noun: a low-class, trashy nouveau riche person who may be naive and is often a hillbilly or otherwise rural.

Noun

Jed Clampett (plural Jed Clampetts)

  1. A low-class, trashy nouveau riche person who may be naive and is often a hillbilly or otherwise rural.
    • Zayed may not have been the "Jed Clampett of the Middle East," as Americans staying at some of his new four-star hotels used to joke. But he was a financial ingenue with a newly minted horde of money, a horde that got much, much bigger after the Arab oil em-bargo. He was like Jed Clampett in that...2004, Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Beard Books
    • "What's sad," said the bicycle rep, "is that he's the prize of the bunch. He's the Jed Clampett of this menagerie."2014, Ron Ebest, The Dave Store Massacre, Chicago Review Press

Examples of Jed Clampett in a sentence

  • Zayed may not have been the "Jed Clampett of the Middle East," as Americans staying at some of his new four-star hotels used to joke.2004, Jonathan Beaty, S. C. Gwynne, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI, Beard Books:
  • Newly rich, the city was the Jed Clampett of urbanism.2025, Don Gillmor, On Oil, Biblioasis:
  • I feel like the Jed Clampett of car owners." —Jenny2012, Kathi Lipp, The Get Yourself Organized Project: 21 Steps to Less Mess and Stress, Harvest House Press, page 185:

Forms of Jed Clampett

pluralJed Clampetts

Origin of Jed Clampett

From the character Jed Clampett from the television show Beverly Hillbillies.

Questions about Jed Clampett

What does Jed Clampett mean?
Jed Clampett means a low-class, trashy nouveau riche person who may be naive and is often a hillbilly or otherwise rural.
How do you use Jed Clampett in a sentence?
Zayed may not have been the "Jed Clampett of the Middle East," as Americans staying at some of his new four-star hotels used to joke.
What part of speech is Jed Clampett?
Jed Clampett is a noun.
What is the plural of Jed Clampett?
The plural of Jed Clampett is Jed Clampetts.

Words near Jed Clampett in the dictionary

  1. Jeconiah
  2. jecoral
  3. jecorin
  4. jects
  5. JED
  6. Jed Clampett
  7. Jedburgh
  8. Jedburgh justice
  9. Jedburgh staff
  10. Jedburgh staffs
  11. Jedburgh stave

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