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an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country
city dwellers who looked down on their cousins from northern Maine as hicks
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“Hicks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hicks. Accessed 29 Mar. 2023.
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