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rednecks

rednecks is the plural of redneck.

Meaning of redneck

Noun

redneck (plural rednecks)

  1. (US, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) 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.
  2. (broadly, derogatory) yokel, hick, country bumpkin
    • Sample a look back you look and find / Nothing but rednecks for 400 years if you check1989, “Fight the Power”, in Fear of a Black Planet, performed by Public Enemy
  3. (US, historical, slang) Any of the miners who wore red bandanas for identification during the West Virginia mine war of 1921.
  4. (US, historical, slang) A member of a certain Baltimore street gang, active in 1859.
  5. (UK, archaic, slur, 19th and 20th centuries) A Roman Catholic.

Questions about rednecks

What is rednecks the plural of?
Rednecks is the plural of redneck.

Words near rednecks in the dictionary

  1. redneckian
  2. redneckification
  3. redneckish
  4. redneckism
  5. redneckitis
  6. rednecks
  7. rednecky
  8. redner
  9. redness
  10. rednesses
  11. rednosed

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