: an unsophisticated provincial person
: unsophisticated, provincial
a hick town
Synonyms
Examples of hick in a Sentence
Noun
We felt like a bunch of hicks when we went to the city for the first time.
city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks
Recent Examples on the Web
Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
No one knew how many difficulties existed in the fictional town of Letterkenny when the show revolving around small-town hicks, hockey players and skids launched on Super Bowl Sunday 2016.
—Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
Lucia could offer a considerable step-up from the three distinctly unlikable protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 5: the psychotic hick Trevor, the middle-aged cynic Michael, and the quietly monstrous Franklin.
—Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
The series takes place in the fictional town of Letterkenny, Ontario, and follows its residents, who belong to one of three groups — the hicks, the skids, or the hockey players.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
Bill talks like a hick.
—Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2021
Norm Macdonald, at his best, was a divinely hilarious, brave and absurd anomaly — a backwoods Canadian hick with the phrasing of a poet, a mad bomber and destroyer of worlds who was, simultaneously, a principled and loyal friend.
—Conan O'Brien, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
Michael Stulhbarg, cast against type as a grinning hick in overalls, and Jessica Harper, tersely compelling as Maren’s adoptive grandmother.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
For all of his self-ridicule about being an uneducated hick, Bird would prove to have the best grasp of the reporter-player relationship of all the Celtics players during my time covering the team.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Rimac moved to Germany at age 2 and then to an independent Croatia in his early teens, where he was teased for his hick Bosnian accent.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2021
All of California isn’t vegan with wild hair, just like all of Texas isn’t overly crazy conservative, southern or hick accents, riding horses and shooting armadillos.
—Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
Noun
The shorts featured himself and Nathan Dales as hicks hanging out at the produce stand and pontificating about their problems in quick jump cuts.
—Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
No one knew how many difficulties existed in the fictional town of Letterkenny when the show revolving around small-town hicks, hockey players and skids launched on Super Bowl Sunday 2016.
—Amber Dowling, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
Lucia could offer a considerable step-up from the three distinctly unlikable protagonists of Grand Theft Auto 5: the psychotic hick Trevor, the middle-aged cynic Michael, and the quietly monstrous Franklin.
—Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023
The series takes place in the fictional town of Letterkenny, Ontario, and follows its residents, who belong to one of three groups — the hicks, the skids, or the hockey players.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
Bill talks like a hick.
—Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2021
Norm Macdonald, at his best, was a divinely hilarious, brave and absurd anomaly — a backwoods Canadian hick with the phrasing of a poet, a mad bomber and destroyer of worlds who was, simultaneously, a principled and loyal friend.
—Conan O'Brien, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
Michael Stulhbarg, cast against type as a grinning hick in overalls, and Jessica Harper, tersely compelling as Maren’s adoptive grandmother.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2022
For all of his self-ridicule about being an uneducated hick, Bird would prove to have the best grasp of the reporter-player relationship of all the Celtics players during my time covering the team.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Nov. 2021
Adjective
One is a sick herb; the other is a hick Serb.
—Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
Rimac moved to Germany at age 2 and then to an independent Croatia in his early teens, where he was teased for his hick Bosnian accent.
—Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2021
All of California isn’t vegan with wild hair, just like all of Texas isn’t overly crazy conservative, southern or hick accents, riding horses and shooting armadillos.
—Emily Bloch, Teen Vogue, 10 Sep. 2018
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“Hick.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hick. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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